Many thanks. It worked like a charm.
On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 11:44 AM Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <
ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
> On 8/4/24 06:45, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I believe that there is a LaTeX package which typesets the METAPOST text
>
> Am 17.05.2015 um 22:54 schrieb Troy Henderson :
>
> I updated pstoedit, and it functions as expected.
>
> This is not a MetaPost question but rather a ConTeXt question: How do I use
> Arev Bold (Sans) in ConTeXt?
Use the DejaVu fonts which are like Arev Sans a extended v
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Nicola wrote:
> Hi,
> I write to this mailing list because the MetaPost mailing list has been
> silent for a while. I hope it is ok.
>
> I am getting to grips with MetaPost after a long hiatus, so I have not
> followed recent developments. I se
On 2016-09-09 13:21:21 +, luigi scarso said:
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Nicola wrote:
Hi,
I write to this mailing list because the MetaPost mailing list has been
silent for a while. I hope it is ok.
I am getting to grips with MetaPost after a long hiatus, so I have not
followed
Hi all,
this one is for all the metapos/metafun experts out there (Alan, are you
there?). For a counter in one of my slide backgrounds, I have to calculate an
intersectionpoint, given in percentage of the difference between current page
and last page. I have always had some difficulties on the
Hi,
During the search Euler font, I found a manual “creating metapost outlines”.
It is what I looking for at the last year.
I tried an example for section head, but it issued an undefined control
sequence message.
Please tell me what is wrong and how to change.
I copied the sample code and
Hi,
in documentations I can find various examples of circled text. But
copying them I had no success till now.
I want to place text in half circles of various radiuses. Is there
anywhere a simple example?
My greatest problems seem to be in the embedding code.
Gerhard
--
Gerhard Kugler
Benshe
Hi all,
I make my first steps with Metapost.
I would like to set the background of all pages to a Metapost graphic.
But only the first page has the defined background.
I also tried with
\startuseMPgraphic
with no success
--- mwe ---
\startreusableMPgraphic{kreis}
draw fullcircle scaled
What is the simplest way to change the size of fonts in labels drawn in
MetaPost?
\switchtobodyfont[size] can be done in \startMPenvironment and inside each
label.
But is it possible to have:
set-font-to-size1
draw labels
set-font-to-size2
draw more labels
Hans van der Meer
traditional MetaPost.
Is this prefix required? It breaks old code and required a branch in
every new project. And I don't really see a reason for this
incompatibility. Here is an example defining a new direction “foo”:
\starttext
\startMPcode
label("first", origin);
%% M
On 12/21/2013 12:50 PM, DesdeChaves wrote:
I know that metapost can send the variables "version", "number",
"string", "point", "quad", "boolean" and "path" to Context.
"triplet" variable can't pass. It will be
On 12/22/2013 3:57 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 12/21/2013 12:50 PM, DesdeChaves wrote:
I know that metapost can send the variables "version", "number",
"string", "point", "quad", "boolean" and "path" to Context.
"triplet
Thanks very much for your support.
Jorge
2013/12/22 Hans Hagen
> On 12/22/2013 3:57 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> On 12/21/2013 12:50 PM, DesdeChaves wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I know that metapost can send the variables "version", "number",
>&g
On 12/23/2013 4:52 PM, DesdeChaves wrote:
Three ways to generate poisson data. Thanks for Hans Hagen, Alan Braslou
and Anthony Phan.
as you use swig you can also put your library in
/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/lib/luatex/lua/swiglib/randist/core.so
and then (given that you've run mtxrun --generat
I'm trying play with the statistical package** for metapost from Anthony
Phan. I found this strange problem:
This code runs fine:
\startMPcode
label.bot(btex Metapost and Statistics etex,(5mm,0)) ;
\stopMPcode
Also, this code run fine:
\startMPcode
input mps-core.mp;
draw fullcircle s
Also thanks from my side. Just what I needed for further tests (graphics
with multiple paths).
Peter
Am 22.12.2013 19:10, schrieb Hans Hagen:
> \starttext
>
> % \enabletrackers[metapost.variables]
>
> \startMPcode
> numeric n[] ; for i=1 upto 10: n[i] := 1/i ; endfor ;
> pathp[]
Dear all,
with this minimalist content of metapost file:
```
beginfig(1);
dotlabel.ulft("A", origin);
endfig;
end.
```
And this conteXt file:
```
\starttext
\startMPrun
input mymp.mp;
\stopMPrun
\externalfigure[mprun.21][width=5cm]
\stoptext
```
The resulting pdf file c
On 5/21/2014 7:55 PM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote:
Hi,
As PSTricks (which I prefer) is not yet well integrated, I decided to
learn Metapost starting with a simple code.
\starttext
\startMPcode
numeric xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax;
xmin := -2.5; xmax := 2.5; ymax :=2.5 ;ymin:=-2.5; u := 2cm;
vardef f(expr
Hi Hans,
Thank you for the code that is cleaner and certainly less long!
Fabrice
PS : What do you mean by:
define 'improve' .. anyway:
A step of 0.001 is not needed here and gives a*pretty large path*.
___
If yo
Hello,
Why curve drawn is not that expected ?
Fabrice
\starttext
\startMPcode
input hvdm;
l:=2.8mm; r:=0.6; alfa:=45; beta:=0; gamma:=0;
defineDefaultArrow (l, r, alfa, beta, gamma);
numeric xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax;
xmin :=-2; xmax := 4; ymax :=5 ;ymin:=-1; u := 1cm;
p
On Jan 16, 2008 8:07 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a somewhat silly question about metapost/metafun. To emphasize
> parts of a picture, I place a bright red arrow or circle/ellipse on
> top of the picture. I would like to make this arrow more visible by
&g
On Jan 16, 2008, at 11:22 PM, John Luciani wrote:
> There is some information on doing transparencies in
> METAPOST at http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~phan/metalpha.html
>
> Using the code at the above link you should be able to produce
> the effect in your jpeg.
>
> (* j
k) ;
> endfor ;
>
> Is this because the expression "pencircle scaled" expects a "numeric
> primary" as argument? And is there any way around this?
scaled expects a dimension. (i*0.5)pt is not a dimension. You need
nsion. (i*0.5)pt is not a dimension. You need to
> either write (i*0.5pt) or ((i*0.5)*1pt). The extra parenthesis are
> needed
> to keep the metapost parser happy.
>
> Aditya
>
Hi Aditya,
agh. So easy - and I had no idea how to do it. Works perfectly!
I'm glad I&
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> I never thanked you for your message; sorry about that! Unless I'm
> missing something, this page is just about transparency, but that
> works quite well in metafun; it was the combination of transparency
> and shading which I couldn't get right.
in mkiv at some p
On May 1, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost:
>
> --
> MetaPost 1.004
> ---
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On May 1, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>> The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost:
>>
>> ---
s? :-)
>
> # mpost
> This is MetaPost, Version 1.004 (Web2C 7.5.5)
That means some redundancy in the code: the version number is maintained at
two places ("mpost" and "mpost --version").
Cheers, Peter
--
http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/
_
> > oversight, or are those indeed old binaries (and you forgot to pack
>> > the new ones? :-)
>>
>> # mpost
>> This is MetaPost, Version 1.004 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>
> That means some redundancy in the code: the version number is maintained at
> two places ("
etc. whichever ones machine has)
> >
> >
> > It would be most natural, I think, if the -arch switch is added
> > standard through the autoconf scripts. Taco could see to that for
> > metapost and luatex, I trust. Can someone mail this experience to the
> >
think, if the -arch switch is added
> standard through the autoconf scripts. Taco could see to that for
> metapost and luatex, I trust. Can someone mail this experience to the
> maintainers of pdftex? (I could not ascertain why pdftex compiles
> without problems).
>
> Hans va
more specific architecture specification affecting instruction set
>> and scheduling if one wants to tune the generated code to ones
>> processor: CFLAGS -mcpu=G4 (-mcpu=G5 etc. whichever ones machine has)
>>
>>
>> It would be most natural, I think, if the -arch switch
Hi all,
I have just released the archive files for MetaPost 1.090, the
first official beta for the new stable version of MetaPost.
--
What is new:
--
This
ptext
---
Now if I only knew how to properly align my MetaPost figure with the
rest of the formula … any ideas?
Cheerio,
Oliver
___
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the
Hi all,
cleaning up the code in my module, I run into a very interesting
problem. I want to pass a user-defined value to Metapost. Until now,
the value "scale" had to be numeric, and I used it like this:
draw fullcircle scaled \MPvar{scale}mm
and Metapost was happy, and I wa
ins not
> big [11pt] with [global]. How can I toggle the two sizes differently?
These settings are used exclusevely for btex ... etex and textext.
\sometxt uses the surounding font.
There could be some settings for fonts in metapost graphics, but I'm
not aware of any.
However, it'
gt; .html
strange
> You need
> \runMPgraphicstrue
Yes, this helps!
But what are the sideeffects? When is the opposite needed?
> These settings are used exclusevely for btex ... etex and textext.
> \sometxt uses the surounding font.
>
> There could be some settings for fonts in metapost
. It might have to do with write18
(perhaps when it's desabled, one of them doesn't work, but I don't
really know).
>> These settings are used exclusevely for btex ... etex and textext.
>> \sometxt uses the surounding font.
>>
>> There could be some settings for
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>>> You need
>>> \runMPgraphicstrue
>> Yes, this helps!
>>
>> But what are the sideeffects? When is the opposite needed?
\runMPgraphicfalse is faster when you need two tex runs anyway,
because it collects all the graphic
o tex runs anyway,
> because it collects all the graphics in a single metapost run
> which is a more efficient way of generating the graphics (in
> mkii),
> that is its reason for existence. But sometimes it doesn't work,
> so having \runMPgraphicstrue in your cont-usr.tex is not a
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
>
> I did this, but 'cont-usr.tex' is never included (windows minimal).
cont-usr is read by texexec --make (at format generation time)
> The file 'core-job.tex' should do this but it is itself not included.
but it does (at format generation time)
> 'cont-sys.
Hi Hans,
Hans van der Meer wrote:
>
> Why is mkii behaving differently and not affected by pen changes?
> Is this to be expected from metapost (and thus to be considered normal
> behaviour) or did a bug creep in?
Can you please post a small complete example?
Best
Le 26 octobre à 16:24:40 Alan BRASLAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment:
| Thus, I am trying to figure out where to invest my learning efforts. Do any
| other metapost and/or pgf-tikz experts have something to contribute to this
| query?
Well, I'm certainly not an expert, but I w
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> Following some exchange off-list (trying to figure out how tikz under context
> got broken), the subject of understanding pgf/tikz with respect to metapost
> came up. I am posting a follow-up here as it may be of interest to others
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Otared Kavian wrote:
Hi all,
I have a file which contains the lines below: I can typeset it and obtain a
correct result with mkii, but not with mkiv (the second buffer named "axes-1"
does not result in a MetaPost graphic when one says
\processMPbuffer[axes
On 14 janv. 09, at 06:51, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Otared Kavian wrote:
Hi all,
I have a file which contains the lines below: I can typeset it and
obtain a correct result with mkii, but not with mkiv (the second
buffer named "axes-1" does not result in
Otared Kavian wrote:
Thanks Aditya for your explanation, but I must say that it is not
convincing because with mkiv one of the buffers is processed with
\processMPbuffer, while the other is not… So there must be some other
hidden behaviour which has changed between mkii and mkiv.
I will lea
my installation: is it removed or I understod
wrong?
Best wishes: OK
% bug-metapost-1.tex
%!TEX TS-program = mkiv
\setupcolors[state=start]
\starttext
\startbuffer[axes-1]
numeric u ; u := .5cm ;
path xox ; xox := (-u,0)--(8u,0) ;
path yoy ; yoy := (0,-u)--(0,7u) ;
draw xox withcolor
Otared Kavian wrote:
>
> By the way, in one of your messages some time ago you said that there is
> a command
> \luatexversion
> but it doesn't exist on my installation: is it removed or I understod
> wrong?
Try \the\luatexversion, and \luatexrevision.
Best wishes,
Taco
_
On 14 janv. 09, at 09:31, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Otared Kavian wrote:
By the way, in one of your messages some time ago you said that
there is
a command
\luatexversion
but it doesn't exist on my installation: is it removed or I understod
wrong?
Try \the\luatexversion, and \luatexrevi
Otared Kavian wrote:
I will leave it for Hans to figure what exactly goes wrong, but the
problem is caused by the comment characters in the axes-1 buffer.
core-buf.lua: line 253
return concat(t,separator or "\n") -- "\n" is safer due to comments
and such
(easier fix than passing "\\n"
On 14 janv. 09, at 11:30, Hans Hagen wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
Otared Kavian wrote:
I will leave it for Hans to figure what exactly goes wrong, but
the problem is caused by the comment characters in the axes-1
buffer.
core-buf.lua: line 253
return concat(t,separator or "\n") -- "\n" is
Hans Hagen wrote:
Otared Kavian wrote:
I will leave it for Hans to figure what exactly goes wrong, but the
problem is caused by the comment characters in the axes-1 buffer.
core-buf.lua: line 253
return concat(t,separator or "\n") -- "\n" is safer due to comments
and such
(easier fix
-- "\n" is safer due to
comments and such
(easier fix than passing "\\n" in meta-ini.mkiv
there was some more involved, i'll upload a fixed beta
Hi Hans,
I tested the new beta mkiv
ConTeXt version 2009.01.14 11:29
on many of my files having MetaPost, and everything w
Hi list,
I'm having some trouble with MetaPost in general and MetaObj in
particular. I hope someone on this list can assist me here. I'm trying
to run the appended ConTeXt file with a quite simple object "Segment"
(from the manual [1], section 2.1). This script works fine
can have only one segment (so that regions are simply
connected), (...)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaPost).
I thought I ask here before I put this aside.
As a workaround I fill out the bigger one with color black and the smaller one
with color white, but I need to put this on different
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:02:32 +0100
zs wrote:
Hello everybody.
Can you please confirm that following code fails:
\usemodule[simpleslides]
\starttext
\IncludePicture[horizontal][cow][highlight=yes,
alternative=circle, x=1, y=1, xscale=1, yscale=1,
shadow=bottomleft]{hello}
\stoptext
And thi
Dear list,
I'm trying to make some fancy chapter headers. With MetaPost I drew a
wave, which I'd like to place in the margin. I've read details.pdf and
metafun.pdf, but I don't manage to get the positioning right. The wave
should begin where the bottomframe ends and move o
Am 2011-03-13 um 22:31 schrieb Thomas Schmitz:
what fails is the shadow for the highlight. Aditya wrote this code,
so please curse him :-) I must admit I don't really understand what
he did there. As a workaround (or solution?): line 835 of
simpleslides-s-default.tex:
withcolor trans
On 26-6-2011 1:51, Hans van der Meer wrote:
I must be doing something wrong. But what?
Relevant part of Metapost code:
I got the code from the Metafun manual. Beta from ConTeXt ver: 2011.03.28
01:03 MKIV download.
Something obvious I am overlooking?
cmykcolor is another datatype in mp than
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question for metapost specialists:
>
> I am looking for some sort of effect, built upon a zig-zag line.
> The first graphic in the minimal example below is as I would expect.
> The second graphic seem
Am 21.07.2011 16:53, schrieb luigi scarso:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a question for metapost specialists:
>>
>> I am looking for some sort of effect, built upon a zig-zag line.
>> The first graphic in
ole point of this
figure -- I am using metapost to achieve very easily an effect, conceptually
very simple, that a colleague has not been able to produce using Adobe
Illustrator.
Thank you again for helping out.
Alan
that drawing with an asymmetrical pen
>> has its own (complex) rules.
>
> Thank you -- I forgot about the path operator &
>
same here (i had to browse the metapost manual for the operator) :-)
> (Funny thing, though, that the problem shows up with point 0. I would also
On 10-8-2011 11:49, Andreas Harder wrote:
Hi all,
the following used to work not so long time ago.
\startMPpage[offset=1ex]
fontmapfile "=lm-ec.map" ; picture q ; path p ;
q := (glyph "Q" of "ec-lmr10") ;
for item within q :
p := pathpart item ;
draw p ;
endfor ;
\stop
On 5-10-2011 19:56, Hans van der Meer wrote:
Is there a value that can be given to a color variable in MetaPost that might function as
some sort of "no color". Thus something like NULL in the programming language C.
not that
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:46:22PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 5-10-2011 19:56, Hans van der Meer wrote:
> > Is there a value that can be given to a color variable in MetaPost that
> > might function as some sort of "no color". Thus something like NULL in the
&
I have this question on the implementation of metapost.
The following program ends in an error:
\startMPpage
picture v;
draw origin--(1cm,1cm);
v = currentpicture;
clearit;
draw (1cm,0)--(0,1cm);
currentpicture := currentpicture + v;
\stopMPpage
The error is: ! Not implemented: (picture
The goal is to make the following string in metapost:
string s; where s must become "\MPcolor{Blue}".
and ultimately execute this at the right moment with: scantokens s;
The following makes s = "MPcolor{Blue}":
s := "MPcolor" & char oct"134" &
.
I put my test file in which some maths is used in a MetaPost graphic here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4316076/test-graphique.tex
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4316076/test-graphique.pdf
Best regards: OK
On 30 nov. 2011, at 20:59, Hans van der Meer wrote:
> I would like to put s
On 30-11-2011 20:59, Hans van der Meer wrote:
I would like to put some math in metapost pictures. For the moment I am using textext for the typesetting in my metapost
macro: pic :=
textext("\setbox0=\hbox{\color["&textcolor&"]"&labeltext&"}\dp0=0pt\
Dear devs,
There seems to be a bug in the MetaPost integration of ConTeXt. The MWE
below should produce three different labels “dummy foo bar” but instead
produces “bar bar bar”. The same example works correctly in plain
MetaPost. Originally reported on
https://tex.stackexchange.com
Hi all,
Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?
Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting
SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.
If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files
instead of SVG files. That will do
Am 2019-09-11 um 13:46 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm :
> \definecolor[VerlaufVon][c=75,m=5,y=95,k=60]
> \definecolor[VerlaufNach][c=88,m=95,y=5,k=60]
Of course I need values between 0 and 1.
Sorry for the noise.
I think I’m too tired...
Greetlings, Hraban
---
https://www.fiee.net
http://wiki.conte
On 9/11/2019 2:18 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 2019-09-11 um 13:46 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm :
\definecolor[VerlaufVon][c=75,m=5,y=95,k=60]
\definecolor[VerlaufNach][c=88,m=95,y=5,k=60]
Of course I need values between 0 and 1.
Sorry for the noise.
I think I’m too tired...
there is an a
I have a METAPOST algorithm that splits a path at a certain time in two, does
something with both ends (not the ends where they were split) and then rejoins
them.
In very rare cases this crashes, because the subpath doesn’t work as expected.
firstPart := subpath (0,halfWayTime) of
On Wed, 20 May 2020, jk...@inradius.net wrote:
Is there a different approach to use boxes.mp?
MNWE:
\startMPpage
input boxes.mp;
boxit.bl("left");
boxit.br("right");
br.sw - bl.ne = (20,0);
drawboxed(bl,br);
\stopMPpage
Move `input boxes` outside the `\startMPpage`.
\startMPdefinitions
Hello
Is it possible to import a metapost extension into a file compiled with the
lmtx engine ?
I tried unsuccessfully with this example :
begin test.tex
\starttext
\startMPcode
input mp-scratch;
Scratchversion:=3;
draw Drapeau;
draw Repeter("4");
draw Avancer("50&q
Hi,
the following code has been working before:
\starttext
\startMPpage[instance=decimalfun]
draw function(1,"x","x*sin(x)",0.5,1,1/100) scaled 1in;
\stopMPpage
\stoptext
Now (with an updated ConTeXt) I get an error:
metapost> loading 'metafun' as &#x
eMPgraphic
\starttext
\useMPgraphic{foo}
\stoptext
The data stored in data.d is as follows:
0 0
1 1
2 4
When compiling with MKIV, the following error occurs:
!mplib : mp terminal:
(/opt/context-minimals/tex/texmf/metapost/base/graph.mp
! Redundant equation.
;
l.143 G
This code compiles fine with plain MetaPost.
input graph;
beginfig(0);
draw begingraph(1in,1in);
setrange((0,0),(1,1));
for n=auto.x:
show format("%g",n);
endfor;
endgraph;
endfig;
end
However, this "ConTeXt translated" version errors in MK
Hi all,
I can't find a solution for the following example:
\starttext
\startMPpage
draw origin for i=0 step 10 until 100 : ..{down}(i,0) endfor ;
\stopMPpage
\startluacode
context.startMPpage()
context("draw origin"..for i=0,100,10 do.."..{down}("..i..",0)"..end..";")
context.stopMPpage()
\
Is there a SVG to MetaPost/MetaFun converter available?
I want to get this quite simple logo to converted from SVG into a ConTeXt-
native vector graphic.
Cheers,
Matija
P.S. Too bad SVG is not ConTeXt-native (yet?)
--
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www: http://matija.suklje.name
xmpp: matija.suk
On 11-4-2010 3:25, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Hi all,
In a book on construction engineering I found two kind of tables that
presumably could be set very nicely in ConTeXt (see attachments). Set with
MetaPost within natural tables?
1) Curly braces that span over cells: Their height should be
Am 11.04.2010 um 17:51 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 11-4-2010 3:25, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In a book on construction engineering I found two kind of tables that
>> presumably could be set very nicely in ConTeXt (see attachments). Set with
>&g
On 11-4-2010 6:10, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Thank you Hans! I can imagine that this fits on the first example.
Do you also have an idea on the second case, the arrows from one table cell to
another?
(Does it has to be so complex as in metafun manual, page 140: "5.2 Anchors and
layers"??)
posi
> use textbackgrounds ... instead of drawing lines you then do a textext that
> does a \left{ in math alongside a vbox that has the height of the lefgt
> boundary etc etc
That would be really interesting for a project I'm working on (a
songbook). I thought textbackgrounds could only put a color be
Am 11.04.2010 um 18:31 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 11-4-2010 6:10, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>
>> Thank you Hans! I can imagine that this fits on the first example.
>>
>> Do you also have an idea on the second case, the arrows from one table cell
>> to another?
>> (Does it has to be so complex as in
On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it works as
expected. Have a look at the following example.
\starttext
\& % OK
\startMPcode
label(textext("\&"),origin); % produces error
\stopMPcode
\stoptext
The compile
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 22:58, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
>>
>> I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it works
>> as expected. Have a look at the following example.
>>
>> \starttext
>> \& % OK
&g
On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it
> > works as expected. Have a look at the following example.
> >
> > \starttext
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 23:45, Marco wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it
>> > works as e
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 23:45, Marco wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it
> works as expected. Have a
On Fri, 14 May 2010 00:37:44 +0200, Mojca Miklavec
wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 23:45, Marco wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen
> > wrote:
> >> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I h
or \& generates the
> > character & alone: you need to preceed it with backslash, so that
> > metapost finally knows what to do.
>
> So, should all the \letter... commands (basically anything generated
> from char-def.lua) be unexpandable?
What are the disadvantages of un
On 14-5-2010 12:06, Marco wrote:
iii) Why should I better use \sometxt?
sometxt was introduced in mkii to avoid text processing mp, i.e. it is
done at the context end in the current run and mp only gets dimensions;
so, it avoids the nested tex run
in mkii there is some more trickery and
On 14-5-2010 12:06, Marco wrote:
for i=0 downto -3:
ran;
label(\sometxt{\bold{Test}}, (7cm,-4cm))
rotatedaround ((7cm,-4cm),i*20)
withcolor transparent("normal", .2, (r,g,b));
endfor;
because transparent overloads the mechanism that sometxt (textext) uses
for passing info to te
On Fri, 14 May 2010 12:44:47 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 14-5-2010 12:06, Marco wrote:
> > for i=0 downto -3:
> >ran;
> >label(\sometxt{\bold{Test}}, (7cm,-4cm))
> > rotatedaround ((7cm,-4cm),i*20)
> > withcolor transparent("normal", .2, (r,g,b));
> > endfor;
>
> because tran
On 14-5-2010 1:45, Marco wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2010 12:44:47 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 14-5-2010 12:06, Marco wrote:
for i=0 downto -3:
ran;
label(\sometxt{\bold{Test}}, (7cm,-4cm))
rotatedaround ((7cm,-4cm),i*20)
withcolor transparent("normal", .2, (r,g,b));
endfor;
b
On 14-5-2010 3:07, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
This is because the commands are interpreted with TeX before they are
written to mpgraph.mp. The \letterampersand or \& generates the
character & alone: you need to preceed it with backslash, so that
metapost finally knows what to do.
So, sh
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