On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi all,
I was just wondering if this is a bug or if it's something that still needs to be implemented: the example on p. 10 of Mojca's sometxt MyWay works in mkii, yet in mkiv, it doesn't:
\starttext \startTeXtexts \dorecurse{12}{\TeXtext{\recurselevel}{\recurselevel}} \stopTeXtexts
\startMPcode numeric r; r = 1.5cm; draw fullcircle scaled 2r; for i=1 upto 12: draw (origin--down) scaled 4pt shifted (0,r) rotated -30i; label(sometxt(i), up scaled .75r rotated -30i); endfor; \stopMPcode \stoptext
in mkiv, I get no labels and the somewhat cryptic sentence "[do we need TeXtexts in MkIV]" on my pdf. Anybody able to answer this or my question?
Honestly, I don't think that we need this exact functionality. In mkiv textext works perfectly well to achieve the same goal, you don't really need \sometxt or \TeXtext. The only question is: do we care about backward compatibility? I can also remove the example from MyWay or write that it's a bit obscure. It really is an obscure application. OK, I just neglected the fact that I do use that in the gnuplot module (which is not mkiv ready for two tiny and obscure reasons that could be fixed long ago). In case that I won't be drawing the graphs for thesis in excell, I'll try to fix the module. I don't think that any other sane person uses \TeXtext. (I don't, and module should be fixed anyway.) Mojca