From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: TeX-MP interaction in mkii and mkiv
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:45:24 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810130943520.28064@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00810130129y5f8b6e4al3d65843ec048abf1@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> 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?
>
> If you want to do changes, just go ahead (you might be more
> competitive to describe them).
>
> Otherwise: I'm not sure what all the differences are.
> 1.) withcolor doesn't work
> 2.) \startTeXtexsts cannot be used
> 3.) the example above fails in mkii
In MKIV certain commands inside \sometxt should be unexpandable. I do not
really understand which ones, but I occasionally get errors which can be
fixed by making the command unexpandable.
Aditya
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-02 4:53 Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-02 14:43 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-02 15:03 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-10-02 15:07 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-10-02 15:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-10 16:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-10 17:05 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-10 17:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-13 8:29 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-10-13 13:45 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
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