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From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re:  \asciimode and MetaPost in LMTX result in “Isolated expression”
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 15:51:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf46cfeb-c1d6-8254-ddee-67ef73fcf97a@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220312153532.236ad894@homerow>

On 3/12/2022 3:35 PM, Marco Patzer via ntg-context wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:02:42 +0100
> Marco Patzer via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
> 
>> LMTX seems to have an issue with \asciimode and MetaPost:
>>
>> \asciimode
>> \starttext
>>    \startMPcode
>>      fill unitsquare scaled 2cm;
>>    \stopMPcode
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Results in:
>>
>> metafun         > log > error: Isolated expression
> 
> This is still an issue with today's ver: 2022.03.12 11:27 LMTX.
that's because ascimode messes up some catcodes .. you can try this (in 
cont-new.tex):

\prependtoks
     \setcatcodetable\ctxcatcodes
\to \everyMPgraphic

and then do lots of tests with and without asciimode so see if this 
doesn't interfere

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-12 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-31 19:02 Marco Patzer via ntg-context
2022-03-12 14:35 ` Marco Patzer via ntg-context
2022-03-12 14:51   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2022-03-12 17:08     ` Marco Patzer via ntg-context
2022-03-12 21:27       ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-03-13  7:30         ` Marco Patzer via ntg-context

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