From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A sometxt bug (rather misfeature)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:32:13 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.999.0708291630510.492@nqvgln> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.WNT.0.999.0708291608560.492@nqvgln>
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Found an interesting sometxt misfeature.
>
> \startMPinclusions
> boolean test ; test=true ;
> \stopMPinclusions
>
> \startbuffer[test]
> if test :
> label(\sometxt{True}, origin) ;
> fi ;
> label(\sometxt{False}, (10,10)) ;
> \stopbuffer
>
> \processMPbuffer[test]
>
> \blank[big]
>
> \startMPinitializations
> test := false ;
> \stopMPinitializations
>
> \processMPbuffer[test]
>
> Too bad context cannnot parse metapost syntax :)
>
> Workaround (ugly)
Another workaround, slightly less ugly (as long as you count the
number of \sometxt in the if part.
\startbuffer[test]
if test :
label(\sometxt{True}, origin) ;
else :
txtnext := txtnext + 1 ;
fi ;
label(\sometxt{False}, (10,10)) ;
\stopbuffer
\processMPbuffer[test]
Aditya
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2007-08-29 20:16 Aditya Mahajan
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2007-08-30 6:51 ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-30 14:28 ` Aditya Mahajan
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