From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44690 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: TeX-MP interaction in mkii and mkiv Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:24:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <48EF8B6A.4010908@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223659652 8901 80.91.229.12 (10 Oct 2008 17:27:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:27:32 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Oct 10 19:28:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KoLlx-00085e-RP for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:27:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 484571FC07; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:26:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12161-01-4; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:25:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB04C1FB98; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:25:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC3D1FB89 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:25:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10208-01-13 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:24:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.161]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D981FBB8 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:24:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop.local (c-71-234-195-113.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [71.234.195.113]) BY tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 48EF8FD3.AD11B.463 ; 10 Oct 2008 13:24:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48EF8B6A.4010908@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:44690 Archived-At: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Another difference in mkii and mkiv handling of sometxt. If there is a >> line break in \sometxt{ ... } then it fails in mkii, but runs in mkiv. For >> example, >> >> \starttext >> >> \startMPcode >> >> draw \sometxt{A very >> long string} ; >> >> \stopMPcode >> >> \stoptext >> >> I vaguely understand why this is happening, but I do not know if it can be >> corrected. > > in mkii we obey lines because it gives better tracing etc etc given that > we use external files; this will work: > > > draw \sometxt{A very % > long string} ; > Ah, thanks. > indeed mkiv is different but let's consider it an improvement; i don't > want to waste time on mkii fixes that are not that important I understand that. We need to document all these differences between mkii and mkiv with regards to mp interaction for those who want to write code that works in both. Mojca, any plans to update your MyWay? Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________