From: Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com>
To: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: textext within ConTeXt
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 13:26:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMHZ1dbVGwUynYVyGQFpbvmVkN2UmrHHxg6eLnstiH7arFG8Zg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190303111257.06e98a5e@comcast.net>
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This is quite counterintuitive... It also happens if I define a string
variable, use concatenate operator to set its value, and then finally pass
the string to textext macro.
Is there a way to get around this issue?
On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, 1:13 PM Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 12:52:53 -0500
> Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can't understand why the following code does not work. Could someone
> > help me out here?
> >
> > \starttext
> > \startMPpage
> > draw textext("\convertnumber{r}{12}");
> > draw textext("\convertnumber{r}{" & "12" & "}");
> > \stopMPpage
> > \stoptext
> >
> > The first draw statement works perfectly. But the second one throws out
> > errors and complains as follows:
>
> Because luatex intercepts and processes \convertnumber{r}{
> and tries to pass this result to MP as a string, not the other way around.
>
> Alan
>
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2019-03-03 17:52 Mohammad Hossein Bateni
2019-03-03 18:12 ` Alan Braslau
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