From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: loop textext and \MPstring{…}
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:40:22 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0908120138150.11073@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A55EE18C-D66F-4F12-9F39-9BADC1CEAB8A@uni-koblenz.de>
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
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 14:08 Andreas Harder
2009-08-11 22:07 ` Hans Hagen
2009-08-12 5:40 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2009-08-12 10:51 ` Andreas Harder
2009-08-12 13:25 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-08-12 14:53 ` Andreas Harder
2009-08-13 3:00 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-08-13 16:41 ` Andreas Harder
2009-08-12 19:23 ` Hans Hagen
2009-08-12 18:34 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-12 21:22 ` Hans Hagen
2009-08-13 16:50 ` Andreas Harder
2009-08-12 21:27 ` Andreas Harder
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