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18 May
2011
18 May
'11
2:04 a.m.
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Hans Hagen wrote:
In fact, '\externalfigure' in ConTeXt and 'externalfigure' in metafun (without 'draw') can be a bit confusing, as in \starttext \externalfigure "hacker" scaled 5cm ; \stoptext Of course, no-one would ever admit to such foolishness.
maybe another name externalimage or so (as images in mp need to be drawn)
I usually prefer the more verbose: draw textext("\externalfigure[...]") ... which makes things conceptually clearler. Aditya