Hi all, I have just released a second candidate for metapost 1.200. New in this candidate is an altered syntax for string valued newinternals, as proposed by Stephan Hennig. Input should now look like this: newinternal string s;% new string internal with empty string value newinternal numeric num;% new numeric internal with zero value newinternal n;% for compatibility: same as 'newinternal numeric n;' Also, a buffer reallocation bug was found that could cause crashes. The packaged files are here: http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=13&release_id=336 Testing is more than welcome! Have fun, Taco