[Therion] Therion Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7

[Dirk Peinelt]

Ok, that works for me. I had not realised that there is also a metapost
variable.

dirk
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   1. Re: MetaPost/Tex: variable \magdecl (Martin Budaj)


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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 18:20:45 +0200
From: Martin Budaj <m.budaj at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Therion] MetaPost/Tex: variable \magdecl
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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?
>
>
>
> 1.) string handling:
>
> string dec;
>
> %dec:=?3.022?; % FINE!
>
> dec:=\magdecl; % ERROR
>
> p_label.top(thTEX(dec),(0,0),0,8); % >> string output
>
>
>
> 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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