Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> thanks for your responses. I was aware that you can use textext
> (that's what I do right now), but was under the impression that
> sometxt was the way to go (faster and more flexible). Now I'm
> confused :-) I was asking because I was working on my presentation
both mkiv and sometxt use some box trickery which keeps the tex
processing completely inside the tex engine (only refs and dimensions
are passed); in order to deal with loopt, we introduced the TeXtext
trick but it' sno longer needed
there is still \sometxt but it's just a shortcut to a predefined
commando (e.g. framed) which can be handy sometimes
> module. One of the metapost graphics for picture inclusion seems to
> give problems when run under XeTeX, so I was wondering if I could
> replace it with the clever sometxt mechanism Mojca mentions in her
> MyWay. But then I saw that this doesn't work in mkiv... I find XeTeX
> very hard to support in my module. I don't use it myself, I find fonts
then just don't support it and assume mkiv usage
> deeply baffling (I still got the darned "mktextfm lmtypewriter-
> blablabla" message a zillion times, and there is no way to stop a
> XeTeX run; I still had to explicitly disable MKTEXTFM in texmf.cnf in
> TeXLive 2008), so I'm considering just giving it up and tell people to
> use mkiv instead.
indeed; this is a side effect of xetex being opentype and mp only able
to deal with 8 bit fonts; in mkiv mp never sees any text (not een the
btex .. etex which is replaced by by textext before the mp code is
passed to mp); that's why in mkiv your text is a matter of the current
run (inlcuding fotn settings and such, i.e. no need to pass anything to
MPenvironment either)
concerning your module ... you can have a mymodule.mkiv alongside
mymodule.tex if needed
Hans
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