From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: vardef with @# not working within context
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:34:29 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0909211433530.14236@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB7C64D.9070704@wxs.nl>
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> how about adding
>>>>>
>>>>> let @## = @# ;
>>>>>
>>>>> to mp-tool.mp (you need to remake the context format in mkiv or the
>>>>> metafun format in mkii)
>>>>>
>>>>> seems to work
>>>>
>>>> Works in mkiv, but in mkii I get an error with
>>>>
>>>> \starttext
>>>> \startMPcode
>>>> vardef foo = draw (0mm,0mm)--(10mm,10mm); enddef;
>>>> foo;
>>>>
>>>> vardef xy@# = (@#,@#) enddef ;
>>>> draw xy0mm -- xy10mm;
>>>> \stopMPcode
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>> ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \@MPG@@@.
>>>> <to be read again>
>>>
>>> hm, weird. did you remake the metafun format?
>>
>> I did. Just to verify, I created an mp file
>>
>> beginfig(1) ;
>> vardef xy@## = (@##,@##) enddef ;
>> draw xy0mm -- xy10mm;
>> endfig;
>> end;
>>
>> and ran mpost -progname=metafun test.mp which gives me the correct
>> output, so @## is defined. I am using 2009.09.18. I'll try later with the
>> latest beta.
>
> in supp-mps.mkii, patch:
>
> \long\def\runtimeobeyMPlines
> {\catcode35=11\relax % goodie
> \ifx\rawcharacter\undefined
>
> better than nothing
This works.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-21 11:56 Matthijs Kooijman
2009-09-21 12:20 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-09-21 13:42 ` Hans Hagen
2009-09-21 15:38 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-09-21 17:42 ` Hans Hagen
2009-09-21 18:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-09-21 18:30 ` Hans Hagen
2009-09-21 18:34 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2009-09-22 8:50 ` Matthijs Kooijman
2009-09-22 9:56 ` Hans Hagen
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