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works ok ; maybe i should add that command to the core but anyhow you can wikify it
Using btex..etex is becoming complex with all the interactions, so instead I wikified an example of converting from btex..etex to \sometxt -- preaching what I am trying to practice. Instead I'll use the MPenvironment just for font and size switching (e.g. to use a different size for figures than for main text).
(i didn't expect users to cook up all kind of commands in environments; when i have to do that, I normally put them in an environment and load that in the mp graphic (since one loads tex files there)
I hadn't thought of that. Do you mean something like (which I couldn't get to compile): \starttext \startreusableMPgraphic{fig} \def\hello{hhh} % perhaps in an environment file label(\sometxt{\hello}, origin); \stopreusableMPgraphic \reuseMPgraphic{fig} \stoptext -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.