From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/68471 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: externalfigure error in current mkiv beta Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:04:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <201105172241.34509.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <4DD2E41F.9030706@wxs.nl> <201105172321.45353.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <4DD2EAB7.3070102@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"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305677091 15593 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2011 00:04:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 00:04:51 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed May 18 02:04:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMUFr-0005Ls-9e for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 02:04:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD71CAD1E; Wed, 18 May 2011 02:04:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id pd4VQfUBrDe0; Wed, 18 May 2011 02:04:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBEACAD12; Wed, 18 May 2011 02:04:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3873BCAD12 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 02:04:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id shkR5EDIvgEZ for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 02:04:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD41CAD0E for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 02:04:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p4I04RtI004464 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 02:04:29 +0200 Original-Received: FROM adi-netbook (bas3-montreal02-1096681357.dsl.bell.ca [65.94.7.141]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4DD30D09.6B3E4.18530 ; Authuser adityam; 17 May 2011 20:04:25 EDT In-Reply-To: <4DD2EAB7.3070102@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.81; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eEIM4rpS - 61908416b45b - 20110518 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:68471 Archived-At: On Tue, 17 May 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: >> In fact, '\externalfigure' in ConTeXt and 'externalfigure' >> in metafun (without 'draw') can be a bit confusing, as in >> \starttext >> \externalfigure "hacker" scaled 5cm ; >> \stoptext >> Of course, no-one would ever admit to such foolishness. > > maybe another name externalimage or so (as images in mp need to be drawn) I usually prefer the more verbose: draw textext("\externalfigure[...]") ... which makes things conceptually clearler. 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________