Hi, In order to make sure that Mojca will not enter stress mode due to her gnuplot commitments, and also to give other textext users a way out, we now have a new feature: texts processed inside the tex run. (yet to be tested in intermediate runs, but in the future we may stick to runtime completely (experiments with persitent mp runs are pretty promissing). Attached is a test file. The interesting thing is that one can now have arbitrary content in a mp textext (different name btw). Beware: the current context is used so one needs to feed specific settings using the mp environment or else. Normally this is no big problem. I may change the name of \sometxt (not sure yet). There is some trickery involved in expanding the \sometxt and it took me a while to figure out a good way to make the text manipuletable by mp in the usual way while still keeping the real thing inside tex. It may learn you a few tricks -) I'm currently uploading the release (beta) that supports this (plus A's static graphics in disguise) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------