On Wed, 2 May 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Tobias Burnus wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to define a macro in MetaPost which does: >> >> def myfunc (expr x,y)(text t) = >> draw thelabel.rt (btex You passed \quotation{t} etex, (x,y)); >> >> where t in btex ... text is replaced by the argument. How to do so? > > You can do that using TEX.mp. I remember that it is also possible to use > textext to do something like this. I need to check my files to see if I > have an example.
Here is a working solution. \starttext \forceMPTEXcheck{myfunc} \startMPinclusions def myfunc (expr x,y) (text t) = label.rt (textext("You passed \quotation{" & t & "}"), (x,y)) enddef; \stopMPinclusions \startMPpage myfunc (0,0) ("Hello") ; myfunc (2cm,1cm) ("World") ; \stopMPpage \stoptext Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________