"When you are processing a snippet of text starting with btex and ending with either etex or verbatimtex": According the MetaPost manual there are only "verbatimtex .. etex" blocks, but no "btex .. verbatimtex" blocks.
"There is one special case: pens that are (possibly transformed) ellipses have an extra string-valued": In the current PDF, the "string-valued" gets hyphenated as "stringA" at the end of a line and "Bvalued" at the beginning of the following line. _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list dev-context@ntg.nl https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context