Re: input command
luigi scarso <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Apr 2023 14:48:51 +0200
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On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 14:15, <[email protected]> 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. -- luigi -- http://tug.org/metapost/