On Fri, 14 May 2010 17:20:35 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
[...]
> > Here are my results:
> >
> > -There is one obvious reason: speed
> >
> > Average runtime:
> > textext variant: 56s
> > \sometxt variant: 57s
> >
> > That is the same. Maybe my test file is not appropriate to test the
> > sp
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:06, Marco wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2010 00:37:44 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> PS: I would say: better use \sometxt which is far more reliable unless
>> you have to use textext to do string manipulation.
> I don't know exactly which transformations are considered as »s
On 14-5-2010 3:07, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
This is because the commands are interpreted with TeX before they are
written to mpgraph.mp. The \letterampersand or \& generates the
character & alone: you need to preceed it with backslash, so that
metapost finally knows what to do.
So, should all the
On 14-5-2010 1:45, Marco wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2010 12:44:47 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 14-5-2010 12:06, Marco wrote:
for i=0 downto -3:
ran;
label(\sometxt{\bold{Test}}, (7cm,-4cm))
rotatedaround ((7cm,-4cm),i*20)
withcolor transparent("normal", .2, (r,g,b));
endfor;
b
On Fri, 14 May 2010 12:44:47 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 14-5-2010 12:06, Marco wrote:
> > for i=0 downto -3:
> >ran;
> >label(\sometxt{\bold{Test}}, (7cm,-4cm))
> > rotatedaround ((7cm,-4cm),i*20)
> > withcolor transparent("normal", .2, (r,g,b));
> > endfor;
>
> because tran
On 14-5-2010 12:06, Marco wrote:
for i=0 downto -3:
ran;
label(\sometxt{\bold{Test}}, (7cm,-4cm))
rotatedaround ((7cm,-4cm),i*20)
withcolor transparent("normal", .2, (r,g,b));
endfor;
because transparent overloads the mechanism that sometxt (textext) uses
for passing info to te
On 14-5-2010 12:06, Marco wrote:
iii) Why should I better use \sometxt?
sometxt was introduced in mkii to avoid text processing mp, i.e. it is
done at the context end in the current run and mp only gets dimensions;
so, it avoids the nested tex run
in mkii there is some more trickery and
> > - label(textext("\letterbackslash\letterampersand"),origin);
> > - label(textext("\letterbackslash\&"),origin);
> >
> > This is because the commands are interpreted with TeX before they
> > are written to mpgraph.mp. The \letterampersand or \& generates the
> > character & alone: you need to pr
On Fri, 14 May 2010 00:37:44 +0200, Mojca Miklavec
wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 23:45, Marco wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen
> > wrote:
> >> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt
> >
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 23:45, Marco wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it
> works as expected. Have a look at the fo
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 23:45, Marco wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it
>> > works as expected. Have a look at the following example.
>> >
>> > \sta
On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it
> > works as expected. Have a look at the following example.
> >
> > \starttext
> > \& % OK
> > \startMPcode
> > label(textex
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 22:58, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
>>
>> I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it works
>> as expected. Have a look at the following example.
>>
>> \starttext
>> \& % OK
>> \startMPcode
>> label(textext("\&"),origin); % prod
On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it works as
expected. Have a look at the following example.
\starttext
\& % OK
\startMPcode
label(textext("\&"),origin); % produces error
\stopMPcode
\stoptext
The compile time error message is
Hi,
I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it works as
expected. Have a look at the following example.
\starttext
\& % OK
\startMPcode
label(textext("\&"),origin); % produces error
\stopMPcode
\stoptext
The compile time error message is as follows:
! Misplaced alignmen
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