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13 Feb
2017
13 Feb
'17
3:36 p.m.
It's a single tex run so you can do: \starttext \newbox\MyMpBox \setbox\MyMpBox\hbox{foo} \startMPcode draw textext("\copy\MyMpBox") ; \stopMPcode \startMPcode draw textext("\copy\MyMpBox") rotated 45; \stopMPcode \stoptext
This is not much different from: \starttext \startMPinclusions string t; t := "foo"; \stopMPinclusions \startMPcode draw textext(t); \stopMPcode \startMPcode draw textext(t) rotated 45; \stopMPcode \stoptext but the problem was not with passing just text, but with more complex images that may or may not contain text, without specifically addressing text after image is defined.