On 8/11/19 10:51 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

I'll do this (lmtx):

metapost > use 'textext(.....)' instead of 'btex ..... etex' metapost > rewrapping btex ... etex at the outer level [[dummy]] metapost > rewrapping btex ... etex at the outer level [["foo"]] metapost > rewrapping btex ... etex at the outer level [[bar]]

when this is seen

def drawtest = draw btex dummy etex shifted (0,0); draw btex "foo" etex shifted (1.5cm,0); draw btex bar etex shifted (3cm,0); enddef;

rewrapping can work kind of ok, but it is still more fragile than textext (which can also be used with variables and concatinated strings and such, which probably is what one wants to do in macros)

Thank you for the quick repsonse. This looks good to me. However, could you tell me a way to get the correct baseline with textext? When I use \startMPpage draw btex dummy etex shifted (0,0); draw btex foo etex shifted (1.5cm,0); \stopMPpage the baseline is the one that I would expect from TeX, i.e. at the depth of the “y” is removed or otherwise correctly accounted for. In contrast when I use \startMPpage draw textext("dummy") shifted (0,0); draw textext("foo") shifted (1.5cm,0); \stopMPpage the baseline will be below the depth of the “y” which is sometimes unwanted.

Hans

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