Thanks Wolfgang. It appears my memory did some "wishful thinking" in wanting \startuseMPgraphic{name}{key=value}. Although that would have been nice. Hans van der Meer
On 11 Apr 2016, at 14:42, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com<mailto:schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com>> wrote: Meer, Hans van der<mailto:h.vanderm...@uva.nl> 11. April 2016 um 10:35 I seem to remember the following variations in \startuseMPgraphic. (1) \startuseMPgraphic{name}{comma separated list of variables} (2) \startuseMPgraphic{name}{comma separated list of key=value pairs} In the second case one is able to set a default value to that variable, possibly to be overridden with \useMPgraphic{name}{key=value}. I very much would like to specify default values on the \startuseMPgraphic definition of the graphic. However, I cannot get option (2) working. Do I have a bad memory (possible of course ;-), Has it to be done otherwise? \startuseMPgraphic{hans}{color} pickup pencircle scaled 1mm; draw unitsquare scaled 1cm withcolor \MPvar{color}; \stopuseMPgraphic \setupMPvariables[hans][color=red] \starttext \useMPgraphic{hans} \useMPgraphic{hans}{color=blue} \stoptext Wolfgang
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