Re: [NTG-context] textext within ConTeXt

This is quite counterintuitive... It also happens if I define a string variable, use concatenate operator to set its value, and then finally pass the string to textext macro. Is there a way to get around this issue? On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, 1:13 PM Alan Braslau wrote:

On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 12:52:53 -0500 Mohammad Hossein Bateni wrote:

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Hi,

I can't understand why the following code does not work. Could someone help me out here?

\starttext \startMPpage draw textext("\convertnumber{r}{12}"); draw textext("\convertnumber{r}{" & "12" & "}"); \stopMPpage \stoptext

The first draw statement works perfectly. But the second one throws out errors and complains as follows:

Because luatex intercepts and processes \convertnumber{r}{ and tries to pass this result to MP as a string, not the other way around.

Alan