Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
thanks for your responses. I was aware that you can use textext (that's what I do right now), but was under the impression that sometxt was the way to go (faster and more flexible). Now I'm confused :-) I was asking because I was working on my presentation
both mkiv and sometxt use some box trickery which keeps the tex processing completely inside the tex engine (only refs and dimensions are passed); in order to deal with loopt, we introduced the TeXtext trick but it' sno longer needed there is still \sometxt but it's just a shortcut to a predefined commando (e.g. framed) which can be handy sometimes
module. One of the metapost graphics for picture inclusion seems to give problems when run under XeTeX, so I was wondering if I could replace it with the clever sometxt mechanism Mojca mentions in her MyWay. But then I saw that this doesn't work in mkiv... I find XeTeX very hard to support in my module. I don't use it myself, I find fonts
then just don't support it and assume mkiv usage
deeply baffling (I still got the darned "mktextfm lmtypewriter- blablabla" message a zillion times, and there is no way to stop a XeTeX run; I still had to explicitly disable MKTEXTFM in texmf.cnf in TeXLive 2008), so I'm considering just giving it up and tell people to use mkiv instead.
indeed; this is a side effect of xetex being opentype and mp only able to deal with 8 bit fonts; in mkiv mp never sees any text (not een the btex .. etex which is replaced by by textext before the mp code is passed to mp); that's why in mkiv your text is a matter of the current run (inlcuding fotn settings and such, i.e. no need to pass anything to MPenvironment either) concerning your module ... you can have a mymodule.mkiv alongside mymodule.tex if needed Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------