AW: AW: [metapost] label.rt(TEX("\tiny little label"), (0, 0)); does not work

[Fieger, Andreas]

Hartmut,

you are right. I did not read the original question
properly :-( 
My verbatimtex "solution" will of course not work 
with TEX, but your code should do the trick for stefan.

Andreas

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Hartmut Henkel [mailto:hartmut_henkel at gmx.de]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004 20:17
> An: Fieger, Andreas
> Cc: metapost at tug.org
> Betreff: Re: AW: [metapost] label.rt(TEX("\tiny little 
> label"), (0, 0));
> does not work
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Fieger, Andreas wrote:
> 
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: stefan knorr [mailto:stefan at moontraveler.de]
> > >
> > > dear list,
> > > i tried to typeset some smaller labels:
> > > label.rt(TEX("\tiny little label"), (0, 0));     --- does not work
> > > label.rt(btex \tiny little label etex, (0, 0));  --- works
> > > [...]
> >
> > use something like the following at the begin of your document:
> >
> > verbatimtex \documentclass{<baseclass>}
> > \usepackage[<options>]{<package>}
> > \begin{document}
> > etex
> >
> > and then set the environment variable TEX to latex before you call
> > Metapost (how this is done depends on your system).
> 
> Does the above indeed work? AFAIK the following is needed:
> 
> vardef LATEX primary s =
>   write "%&latex" to "mptextmp.mp";
>   write "verbatimtex \documentclass{article}" to "mptextmp.mp";
>   write "\begin{document} etex" to "mptextmp.mp";
>   write "btex "&s&" etex" to "mptextmp.mp";
>   write EOF to "mptextmp.mp";
>   scantokens "input mptextmp"
> enddef;
> % ... could also be put into some file LATEX.mp
> % and then do: input LATEX;
> 
> beginfig(1)
> label.rt(LATEX("\tiny little label"), (0, 0));
> label.rt(LATEX("\bfseries fat label"), (0, 10mm));
> endfig;
> end
> 
> Regards, Hartmut
> 
>