[NTG-context] What alternative for scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex")?

[Alan Braslau]

On 29/03/20 07:06, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> I’m trying in METAPOST to build a command to pass on to ConTeXt using 
> btex/etex.
> 
> picture p; p := scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex”);

btex/etex is better replaced by textext().

Nevertheless, this does not change anything. Context intercepts and 
replaces textext() (and btex/etex) during processing. It does not return 
a picture but a text bounding box that gets substituted upon shipping out.

You *can* save your text to a string, to be passed to textext() in your 
MP macros.

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Alan