On Wed, 2 May 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to define a macro in MetaPost which does:
>>
>> def myfunc (expr x,y)(text t) =
>> draw thelabel.rt (btex You passed \quotation{t} etex, (x,y));
>>
>> where t in btex ... text is replaced by the argument. How to do so?
>
> You can do that using TEX.mp. I remember that it is also possible to use
> textext to do something like this. I need to check my files to see if I
> have an example.
Here is a working solution.
\starttext
\forceMPTEXcheck{myfunc}
\startMPinclusions
def myfunc (expr x,y) (text t) =
label.rt (textext("You passed \quotation{" & t & "}"), (x,y))
enddef;
\stopMPinclusions
\startMPpage
myfunc (0,0) ("Hello") ;
myfunc (2cm,1cm) ("World") ;
\stopMPpage
\stoptext
Aditya
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