On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:53, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello Hans,
is there some simple command to make the following work (in MKII)? (I accept "Not interested since it works in mkiv" as a valid answer :)
\starttext
% makes sure that textext("") works; is there an equivalent for \sometxt?
From what I understand about \sometxt in mkii, I don't think that something like \forceMPTEXcheck can work for \sometxt. If drawA always draws the same string, you can use \TeXtextts (see your MyWay on sometxt ;).
:P
\startTeXtexts \TeXtext{1000}{right} \stopTeXtexts
I was blindly trying to optimize some old code that I need to reuse, but I guess I'll just leave the btex ... etex there for a moment (or just overlay text multiple times; it's used a finite number of times, so I can live with that) :) I am (or was) mainly using \TeXtext{}{} for dynamic strings (generated by external TeX loop). I have never tried any static string inside subroutine so far, so I completely forgot if there's a way to do it or not. For example, the following code works as expected (which kind of surprizes me): \startMPinclusions picture a; \stopMPinclusions \startMPcode draw fullcircle scaled 3cm; draw \sometxt{abc}; a := currentpicture; draw a shifted (4cm,0); \stopMPcode as opposed to \startMPinclusions picture a; draw fullcircle scaled 3cm; draw \sometxt{abc}; a := currentpicture; \stopMPinclusions \startMPcode draw a; draw a shifted (4cm,0); \stopMPcode that only transfers image, but no text. But when thinking about it, there might be a good reason that text is not transferred from MPinclusions to MPcode. If I would change font between MPinclusions and MPcode ... Anyway ... no time to lose extra time on that issue now.
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.43.0-2009081911 ConTeXt ver: 2009.08.19 17:10 MKIV
Works fine here with
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.43.0-2009081914 ConTeXt ver: 2009.08.19 17:10 MKIV fmt: 2009.8.21 int: english/english
Am I always the only one with a broken distribution? :P Is there any link with installation instructions for minimals? :) :) :) Mojca PS: I tried to install from scratch and it indeed works. I tried to delete the whole cache in the old installation and it is still broken. The installation script is supposed to remove any old files with a few exceptions. This might be an alarm that I need to fix something (maybe not only on my machine, but also on the server), but I have no idea yet what else could go wrong (I will try to inspect in September unless someone else has some idea).