[Therion] MetaPost/Tex: variable \magdecl

Martin Budaj m.budaj at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 18:20:45 CEST 2016


Hi,

TeX variables are not accessible in MetaPost. However, there is a
numeric MagDecl variable in MetaPost (see the chapter New map symbols
in the thbook).

Martin

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Dirk Peinelt <dirk.peinelt at t-online.de> wrote:
> Is there a way to handle the content of the \magdecl TEX-variable in
> METAPOST? (Therion V5.3.16)
>
> In a string or numeric? – I think, i‘ve an syntax problem…
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> 1.) string handling:
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> string dec;
>
> %dec:=“3.022“; % FINE!
>
> dec:=\magdecl; % ERROR
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> p_label.top(thTEX(dec),(0,0),0,8); % >> string output
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> 2.) numeric handling:
>
> numeric dec;
>
> %dec:=3.022; % FINE!
>
> dec:=\magdecl; % ERROR
>
> p_label.top(thTEX(decimal dec),(0,0),0,8); % >> numeric to string output
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