Hi, I am typesetting a document with XeConTeXt, containing many MetaPost figures. All the labels in the figures are typeset using \sometxt{} and sometxt(). For some reasons, in the final document some of them appear horribly stretched or shrinked as if their bounding box has not been computed correctly (even after typesetting the document n times). I have absolutely no clue why that happens, but I imagine it is some strange interaction in the environment file, because if I typeset any of the problematic figures by itself in a different document with a minimal environment everything is fine. My environment file is quite long and I cannot find a short example showing the problem. The deformed labels seem to be always among those written by \sometxt (but not all of them are wrong!), while those written using sometxt() seem always ok. What may it depend upon? Nicola PS: I am aware of the interaction between sometxt() and \sometxt: I would like to point out that the labels are *not* messed up: they are the correct labels, just appearing deformed.