On Fri, 21 Aug 2026, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 21.08.2026 um 12:53 schrieb Fabrice Couvreur:
> > Hi,
> > Why doesn't the code below work unless I replace the instruction
> > TEX("$x$") with "\im{x}" ?
>
> There is no TEX for MetaPost in ConTeXt and even plain MetPost requires tex.mp
> to use it. The ConTeXt way to create labels is textext(...).
Or just use label("...", ...);
\starttext
\startMPcode
path xx, yy;
xx = (left -- right) scaled 130;
yy = (down -- up) scaled 80;
drawarrow xx; label.rt("$x$", point 1 of xx);
drawarrow yy; label.top("$y$", point 1 of yy);
\stopMPcode
\stoptext
Aditya
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