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26 Dec
2005
26 Dec
'05
4:44 a.m.
David Arnold wrote:
1. How can I do this in plain metapost?
2. What would be the "Context Way?"
btex ... etex is parsed as-is and therefore cannot be uses this is what the macro textext("...") is for, it writes the (expanded) string to a file and then applies tex to it between runs Hans