you also get the parse-first-line stuff in by:
s:= "glabel.rt( verbatimtex %&latex"
& char 10
& "\documentclass{article}"
& "\usepackage{color} \begin{document} etex "
& "btex\scriptsize\textsf{"
& decimal endy
& "} etex , ly) withcolor red; glabel.lft(btex \scriptsize \textsf{"
& gname
& "} etex, OUT);";
Regards, Hartmut