Re: loop textext and \MPstring{…}

[Andreas Harder <aharder@uni-koblenz.de>]

Am 12.08.2009 um 07:40 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:

> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Andreas Harder wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to achieve the following:
>>
>> \setMPtext{1}{ABC}
>> \setMPtext{2}{DEF}
>> \setMPtext{3}{GHI}
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \startMPpage[offset=1ex,width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]
>> for i=1 upto 3:
>>   draw textext(\MPstring{i}) shifted(i*cm,i*cm) ;
>> endfor;
>> \stopMPpage
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> There is no error but no content either. What's wrong?
>
> Another way to do this is to use
>
> \TeXtext{1}{ABC} etc.
>
> and then call
>
> draw sometxt(i)
>
> For Sec 4.5 of Mojca's my way on sometxt http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/sometxt.pdf

Thank you for the tip, I tried it, but sometext seems deprecated in  
mkiv ("[do we need TeXtexts in MkIV]").

I've different buffers named 1–12 and would like to pipe them to  
Metapost. I thought I could use a textext(\getbuffer[i])-construct, it  
failed. So I tried it with \setMPtext{}{} …

What is the approach to achieve this?

Thank you in advance,
	Andreas
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