Hi all Over the years there have been many discussions about how to turn some but not all labels off, for things like different scales. Lots of metapost that sort of solves some problems, so I was about to right some code for my situation http://wotcc.org.uk/__Transfer/Reads.pdf (work in progress) For this I need to have some labels only on the combined view, some on the exploded view and some on both. I was going to aim at using -attr print comb or -attr print explo and then use metacode to decide where they should be visible. Ideally I would just be able to set an attr and then use symbol-hide attr print:comb but no luck there, unless I messed something, In the end metacode was not needed, I just chose 2 symbols I do not use and added them as a -context point raft and context point clay then symbol-hide point clay or symbol-hide point raft Bit of a bodge, it would be better if attr could be used, but I think that this could be used for lots of the problems I found on the mailing list while looking for a more elegant solution Andrew