Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Andreas Harder wrote:
Am 12.08.2009 um 07:40 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Andreas Harder wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to achieve the following:
\setMPtext{1}{ABC} \setMPtext{2}{DEF} \setMPtext{3}{GHI}
\starttext
\startMPpage[offset=1ex,width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] for i=1 upto 3: draw textext(\MPstring{i}) shifted(i*cm,i*cm) ; endfor; \stopMPpage
\stoptext
There is no error but no content either. What's wrong?
Another way to do this is to use
\TeXtext{1}{ABC} etc.
and then call
draw sometxt(i)
For Sec 4.5 of Mojca's my way on sometxt http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/sometxt.pdf
Thank you for the tip, I tried it, but sometext seems deprecated in mkiv ("[do we need TeXtexts in MkIV]").
I thought that you were using MKII.
I've different buffers named 1–12 and would like to pipe them to Metapost. I thought I could use a textext(\getbuffer[i])-construct, it failed. So I tried it with \setMPtext{}{} …
What is the approach to achieve this?
Well, if nothing else works, you can always cheat.
\startluacode userdata = userdata or {} userdata.labels = { [1] = "ABC" , [2] = "DEF" , [3] = "GHI" }
function userdata.shift(i) return "(" .. i .. "cm ," .. i .. "cm )" end
function userdata.draw(i) return "draw btex " .. userdata.labels[i] .. " etex shifted ".. userdata.shift(i) .. ";" end
\stopluacode
\starttext
\startluacode context.startMPpage({offset = "1ex", width = [[\paperwidth]], height = [[\paperheight]]}) for i = 1,3 do context(userdata.draw(i)) end context.stopMPpage() \stopluacode
\stoptext
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