Dear devs, There seems to be a bug in the MetaPost integration of ConTeXt. The MWE below should produce three different labels “dummy foo bar” but instead produces “bar bar bar”. The same example works correctly in plain MetaPost. Originally reported on
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/503773/strange-behaviour-of-the-btex-etex-construct Cheers, Henri --- \starttext \startMPpage def drawtest(expr i) = %i is not used here draw btex dummy etex shifted (0,0); draw btex foo etex shifted (1.5cm,0); draw btex bar etex shifted (3cm,0); enddef; drawtest(5); \stopMPpage \stoptext ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________