On Sep 7, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Honestly, I don't think that we need this exact functionality. In mkiv > textext works perfectly well to achieve the same goal, you don't > really need \sometxt or \TeXtext. The only question is: do we care > about backward compatibility? I can also remove the example from MyWay > or write that it's a bit obscure. It really is an obscure application. > > OK, I just neglected the fact that I do use that in the gnuplot module > (which is not mkiv ready for two tiny and obscure reasons that could > be fixed long ago). In case that I won't be drawing the graphs for > thesis in excell, I'll try to fix the module. I don't think that any > other sane person uses \TeXtext. (I don't, and module should be fixed > anyway.) > > Mojca
Mojca, Aditya, thanks for your responses. I was aware that you can use textext (that's what I do right now), but was under the impression that sometxt was the way to go (faster and more flexible). Now I'm confused :-) I was asking because I was working on my presentation module. One of the metapost graphics for picture inclusion seems to give problems when run under XeTeX, so I was wondering if I could replace it with the clever sometxt mechanism Mojca mentions in her MyWay. But then I saw that this doesn't work in mkiv... I find XeTeX very hard to support in my module. I don't use it myself, I find fonts deeply baffling (I still got the darned "mktextfm lmtypewriter- blablabla" message a zillion times, and there is no way to stop a XeTeX run; I still had to explicitly disable MKTEXTFM in texmf.cnf in TeXLive 2008), so I'm considering just giving it up and tell people to use mkiv instead. Mojca: I appreciate you write "any other sane person" and not "any sane person" :-) All best Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
