Thanks. That solves the problem. I obviously missed the fact that textext is an \hbox, a fact that explains its behaviour. Hans van der Meer On 15 dec. 2011, at 16:06, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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Is it correct that the use of textext(label,pos) in MetApost pictures does not honor \crlf? I could not make a twoline text with textext("abc\crlf xyz",pos), it comes out as one line "abcxyz". Is it a feature or a defect?

textext("...") is a hbox. So you need to either use

textext("\vbox{... \crlf ...}")

or

textext("\noexpand\framed[align=normal]{... \crlf ...}")

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