Mojca Miklavec wrote:
That's also right. Actually, "btex label etex" which calls TeX (in an extremely inefficient way, among other things) is the one that doesn't know how to handle them. It would be nice if someone from this mailing list had at least some idea if that is solvable or not.
don't bother too much about these issues ... in mkiv things will be different i'm currently playing with mplib; the default converter works ok; the specials handler is reimplemented and mostly finished; and now i'm playing with the textual part ... i even got this working ... \startMPgraphic fill fullcircle scaled 10cm withcolor green ; n := 50 ; for i=1 upto n : draw btex goodbye world etex scaled 2 rotatedaround(origin,i*360/n) ; endfor ; \stopMPgraphic so, btex/etex works ok in a loop; everything happpens in luatex/mplib it's even acceptable fast ... 100 times the previous graphic (i.e. 5000 btex/etex's) takes .7 seconds on my machine ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------