Re: [NTG-context] What alternative for scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex")?

On 29/03/20 07:06, Gerben Wierda wrote:

I’m trying in METAPOST to build a command to pass on to ConTeXt using btex/etex.

picture p; p := scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex”);

btex/etex is better replaced by textext(). Nevertheless, this does not change anything. Context intercepts and replaces textext() (and btex/etex) during processing. It does not return a picture but a text bounding box that gets substituted upon shipping out. You *can* save your text to a string, to be passed to textext() in your MP macros. -- Alan