[metapost] Beginners question

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello Laurence,

> Am 12.09.2023 um 15:24 schrieb Laurence.Finston at gmx.net:
> 
> In your example, you use a low-level command. Normally, one uses `label' or `dotlabel' to include text in a MetaPost file and this is what I'd recommend.

thank you for your answer, I was more thinking of the interface than the usage of fonts. I have my own font implementation that I would like to use in metapost.

Currently I have something like:

def mytext(expr t, fnt, style) =
   runscript("sometext{"& fnt & ":" & style & ":" & t &"}")
enddef;

to be used like

draw mytext( "my text to be output", "Meta Pro", "regular");

and I was thinking if this is a good interface. 

I really like the macros like:

draw "my text to be output" infant "Meta Pro" withstyle "regular";

but I have no idea how this can be implemented or if it has any drawbacks.

Patrick