[metapost] input command

luigi scarso luigi.scarso at gmail.com
Sat Apr 8 14:48:51 CEST 2023


On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 14:15, <mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca> wrote:

> ... and the others listed as commands in the
> table on on page 90 in Appendix B of the Metapost manual.  These are what
> other languages might call primitives.  But "input" is not mentioned in
> that table, nor in the formal syntax.  Maybe it's implemented at a lower
> level in the parser than the others and was omitted for that reason.
>
>
It'a a primitive.
mp.w:mp_primitive (mp, "input", mp_input, 0)
The metapost manual presumes that one knows the metafont book.

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luigi
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