Re: sometxt in mkiv

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

Hi Thomas,

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering if this is a bug or if it's something that still
> needs to be implemented: the example on p. 10 of Mojca's sometxt MyWay
> works in mkii, yet in mkiv, it doesn't:
>
> \starttext
> \startTeXtexts
> \dorecurse{12}{\TeXtext{\recurselevel}{\recurselevel}}
> \stopTeXtexts
>
> \startMPcode
> numeric r; r = 1.5cm;
> draw fullcircle scaled 2r;
> for i=1 upto 12:
> draw (origin--down) scaled 4pt shifted (0,r) rotated -30i;
> label(sometxt(i), up scaled .75r rotated -30i);
> endfor;
> \stopMPcode
> \stoptext
>
> in mkiv, I get no labels and the somewhat cryptic sentence "[do we
> need TeXtexts in MkIV]" on my pdf. Anybody able to answer this or my
> question?

In MKIV, you can simply use textext for such purposes:

\starttext
\startMPcode
numeric r; r = 1.5cm;
draw fullcircle scaled 2r;
for i=1 upto 12:
draw (origin--down) scaled 4pt shifted (0,r) rotated -30i;
label(textext(decimal i), up scaled .75r rotated -30i);
endfor;
\stopMPcode
\stoptext

Aditya
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