At 11:19 PM 3/11/2003 +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

Hans van der Meer writes:

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Hi Hans

Well, I am not Hans, but perhaps I might add a comment:

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I am placing metapost figures in the text:

could you provide a small non-working example (that we can run thru TeX)?

The following works fine here:

% interface=en output=pdf \starttext

\def\mycommand#1{% \startuseMPgraphic{somegraphic} drawdot origin; label.top(textext("#1", origin); \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{somegraphic}}

\mycommand{Hello Hans} \stoptext

\setMPtext{some tag}{some text} \startMPcode draw textext(\MPstring{some tag}) ; \stopMPcode For Patrick who reads sources: %D To be documented: %D %D \starttyping %D \setMPtext{identifier}{text} %D %D \MPtext {identifier} %D \MPstring{identifier} %D \MPbetex {identifier} %D \stoptyping ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------