From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
Subject: Re: What alternative for scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex")?
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:14:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <de6f7c75-cda7-2033-85f4-268c80c801fd@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <722EEA11-6B20-4EB9-ABD0-1E98E7369677@rna.nl>
On 29/03/20 07:06, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> I’m trying in METAPOST to build a command to pass on to ConTeXt using
> btex/etex.
>
> picture p; p := scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex”);
btex/etex is better replaced by textext().
Nevertheless, this does not change anything. Context intercepts and
replaces textext() (and btex/etex) during processing. It does not return
a picture but a text bounding box that gets substituted upon shipping out.
You *can* save your text to a string, to be passed to textext() in your
MP macros.
--
Alan
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