From: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>
Cc: walter kehowski <walter.kehowski@gcmail.maricopa.edu>,
ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Labeling of axes
Date: 29 Jan 2001 10:46:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37l3etl8n.fsf@coe.uga.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010128200347.0093cb40@server-1>
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
...
> This is indeed a problem, since metapost only sees one btex/etex here and
> not obe for every loop.
>
> This is why in context you can use the textext macro:
>
> beginfig(1) ;
>
> numeric u ; u = 1.0cm ;
>
> for i=-10 upto 10 :
> if not (i=0) :
> draw textext.lft("$" & decimal i & "$") shifted (i*u,0) ;
That is a really great feature! I've been missing an easy way to
interpolate data into tex-typeset labels.
--
--Ed Cashin integrit file verification system
ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://integrit.sourceforge.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-29 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-17 16:38 Just testing Pierre Goossens
2001-01-26 20:42 ` Labeling of axes walter kehowski
2001-01-28 19:03 ` Hans Hagen
2001-01-29 15:46 ` Ed L Cashin [this message]
2001-01-29 17:32 ` Hans Hagen
2001-01-29 16:13 ` Marc van Dongen
2001-01-29 17:29 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <3A769CBD.F164433E@econ.muni.cz>
2001-01-30 12:33 ` Bug in XML + Fields? Hans Hagen
2003-08-24 19:29 ` Labeling of axes Christopher Creutzig
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