On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:

> 
> 
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is it possible to generate multi-line labels in MetaPost?  I have  
> > > naively tried the following hoping to get a line feed between the  
> > > two words, but it doesn't work!
> > >
> > > label.rt( btex One \crlf Two etex, (0,0));
> >
> > \defineframed[mplabel][frame=off,align=right,width=fit]
> >
> > label.rt(textext("\mplabel{One\\Two}"),origin) ;
> >
> > Wolfgang
> 
> Thank-you for a very elegant solution, Wolfgang, unfortunately I get an error:
> 
> ! Argument of \dododefinecolor has an extra }.
> 
> I have fixed this by using:
> 
> label.rt(textext("\framed[frame=off,align=right]{One\\Two}"),origin);
> 
> which works okay. It's not as elegant but as the code is generated
> automatically it does not require any more typing on my part!

Section 4.2 of Mojca's MyWay on sometxt
http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/sometxt.pdf provides another solution.

Aditya