Ok, that works for me. I had not realised that there is also a metapost variable.
dirk -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] Im Auftrag von therion-request at speleo.sk Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Juni 2016 12:00 An: therion at speleo.sk Betreff: Therion Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7 Send Therion mailing list submissions to therion at speleo.sk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to therion-request at speleo.sk You can reach the person managing the list at therion-owner at speleo.sk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Therion digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: MetaPost/Tex: variable \magdecl (Martin Budaj) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 18:20:45 +0200 From: Martin Budaj <m.bu...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Therion] MetaPost/Tex: variable \magdecl To: List for Therion users <therion at speleo.sk> Message-ID: <CALPsdSu4S4xZbEyu1Q7_rcv7=1JpLgs4vmzpW1pv5iBYUkYuhA at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, TeX variables are not accessible in MetaPost. However, there is a numeric MagDecl variable in MetaPost (see the chapter New map symbols in the thbook). Martin On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Dirk Peinelt <dirk.peinelt at t-online.de> wrote: > Is there a way to handle the content of the \magdecl TEX-variable in > METAPOST? (Therion V5.3.16) > > In a string or numeric? ? I think, i?ve an syntax problem? > > > > 1.) string handling: > > string dec; > > %dec:=?3.022?; % FINE! > > dec:=\magdecl; % ERROR > > p_label.top(thTEX(dec),(0,0),0,8); % >> string output > > > > 2.) numeric handling: > > numeric dec; > > %dec:=3.022; % FINE! > > dec:=\magdecl; % ERROR > > p_label.top(thTEX(decimal dec),(0,0),0,8); % >> numeric to string > output > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion at speleo.sk http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion End of Therion Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7 *************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: compassrose.txt URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20160607/73fbc51d/attachment.txt> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: northarrow.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 18438 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20160607/73fbc51d/attachment.jpg>
