Hello Sebastian,

oops, stupid typo. The code that didn't want to compile was textext("$\root a \of b$") and textext("$\frac{a}{b}$"), so I only forgot the math signs when writing the email.

Well, you should post a *complete* and *minimal* examplefile showing your problem, together with the context/metafun version numbers (or logfile). This way emails like the last one can be avoided and the others can try to reproduce the problem without hassle. Patrick

Hello Sebastian (sorry for sending twice; this time to the list),

\startuseMPgraphic{test} draw textext("$\frac{a}{b}$"); draw textext("$\root a \of b$"); \stopuseMPgraphic

any reason you use textext here? Do you need changing labels? If not, you should use -------------------------------------------------- \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw btex $\frac{a}{b}$ etex; draw btex $\root a \of b$ etex shifted (10,10) \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} -------------------------------------------------- as a workaround. But this still looks like an unwanted behaviour to me. Patrick

Hello again,

I thought textext was just a faster version of btex ... etex and supposed that this would be the 'way to go', since it is a part of MetaFun.

I guess you know now; but for the record: btex....etex does not allow any variable part in the text to be typeset. This is due to the fact that metapost scans for btex ... etex parts in the input file and creates the text in one single TeX run (preprocessing) and then executes the macros (so the texts are fixed). There are several approaches to allow texts with variable data such as %% does not work! for i=0 upto 10: btex "i is now " + decimal i etex; endfor; one of them is textext: for i=0 upto 10: textext ("i is now " + decimal i); endfor; should work (untested) Patrick