Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Brooks Moses
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:48:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any experience in metapost. I would appreciate if someone would please answer this question without me having to do thru tutorials and metapost source code. I was wondering how does metapost talk to TeX? Quicky

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how does it happen in reality? Matthias' reply is better for your situation, but for curiosity's sake, here is what actually happens: - MetaPost is happily reading MetaPost commands when suddenly it sees a btex command. - Now it will throw away everything upto

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Brooks Moses wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:48:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any experience in metapost. I would appreciate if someone would please answer this question without me having to do thru tutorials and metapost source code. I was wondering how does metapost

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: - The location pointer in the .mpx file is saved for subsequent labels. a small addition: - since we are dealing with parsing, btex .. etex cannot be changed dynamically, which is one of the reasons why metafun has the textext macro which provides an alternative for btex

[NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-23 Thread skhilji
I don't have any experience in metapost. I would appreciate if someone would please answer this question without me having to do thru tutorials and metapost source code. I was wondering how does metapost talk to TeX? Quicky glancing through the metafun book, I found out that you can