On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

it's probably the fallback font ... how is it used?

Hans

In a metafun label (which I can't replace with \sometxt): label.top(decimal value,origin) ; Thomas

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

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On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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it's probably the fallback font ... how is it used?

Hans

In a metafun label (which I can't replace with \sometxt):

label.top(decimal value,origin) ;

label.top(textext(decimal value),origin) ;

Maybe that's the reason ... decimal value will be typeset with metapost, while textext will be typeset with TeX. I have a feeling that Hans defined "lmtt" as default (fallback) font somewhere in metafun code, so that one gets used. font-ini.mkii:% [texnansi-lmtt10] font-ini.mkii:% [ec-lmtt10] font-ini.mkii:% [texnansi-lmtt10] font-ini.mkiv:% [texnansi-lmtt10] meta-ini.mkii: defaultfont:="rm-lmtt10"; meta-ini.mkiv: defaultfont:="rm-lmtt10"; meta-tex.mkii:\definefontsynonym[MPtxtfont][texnansi-lmtt10] But I have no idea when this has happened. I remember having to add texnansi-lmtt because of XeTeX complaining of (most probably) exactly the same thing. There are probably zero benefits if this gets fixed back.

forget about sometxt ...

[unless you work with mkii]

that's mojca's personal hack

Suggestion that I need to forget XeTeX I guess :) :) :) Mojca

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:

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maybe i should patch the label macro

That will be great. It will be nice to have label.top("a string") be equivalent to label.top(textext("a string")). That will work with both mkii and mkiv (and xetex). This way, in MKIV, one can forget about \sometxt and textext :-)

only mkiv (ok, i can make some mechanism for mkii using multipass but extending mkii has a real low priority) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

And how could one change the font/style for the number?

Do you mean with textext, or with the macro that Hans is proposing to define? textext(string) will typeset the string using context, so you can add "\switchtobodyfont[whatever]" in there. The new label macro can use labelfont (or defaultfont, I always forget what metapost uses) to switch the font. In that case there should also be a label color, unless draw textext("something") withcolor red ; works (sorry, I haven't tested this) Aditya

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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And how could one change the font/style for the number?

Do you mean with textext, or with the macro that Hans is proposing to define?

I mean in the example from Hans with textext(decimal value).

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textext(string) will typeset the string using context, so you can add "\switchtobodyfont[whatever]" in there.

textext("\switchtobodyfont[12pt" & decimal value) & is the metapost string concat operator (from memory, haven't verified this) Aditya