On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Another difference in mkii and mkiv handling of sometxt. If there is a
>>>> line break in \sometxt{ ... } then it fails in mkii, but runs in mkiv. For
>>>> example,
>>>>
>>>> \starttext
>>>>
>>>> \startMPcode
>>>>
>>>> draw \sometxt{A very
>>>> long string} ;
>>>>
>>>> \stopMPcode
>>>>
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>> I vaguely understand why this is happening, but I do not know if it can be
>>>> corrected.
>>>
>>> in mkii we obey lines because it gives better tracing etc etc given that
>>> we use external files; this will work:
>>>
>>>
>>> draw \sometxt{A very %
>>> long string} ;
>>>
>>
>> Ah, thanks.
>>
>>> indeed mkiv is different but let's consider it an improvement; i don't
>>> want to waste time on mkii fixes that are not that important
>>
>> I understand that. We need to document all these differences between mkii
>> and mkiv with regards to mp interaction for those who want to write code
>> that works in both. Mojca, any plans to update your MyWay?
>
> If you want to do changes, just go ahead (you might be more
> competitive to describe them).
>
> Otherwise: I'm not sure what all the differences are.
> 1.) withcolor doesn't work
> 2.) \startTeXtexsts cannot be used
> 3.) the example above fails in mkii
In MKIV certain commands inside \sometxt should be unexpandable. I do not
really understand which ones, but I occasionally get errors which can be
fixed by making the command unexpandable.
Aditya
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