Graphics and media/Collections of tips and tricks/MetaPost's textext function and positioning

Note:

• With MkIV, be careful to use textext.dflt which means DeFauLT.
• With LMTX, be careful to use textext.dlft) for LeFT, like textext.ulft) and textext.llft)
  • (textext.dflt does not work with LMTX).

• \starttext
  
  \setupMPinstance
    [metafun]
    [textstyle={\definedfont[name:dejavusans*default at 15pt]\ignorespaces}]
  
  \startMPpage
  
  string MonTexte ; 
  MonTexte := "Aujourd'hui";
  
  draw (0cm,0cm)--(15cm,0cm)--(15cm,15cm)--(0cm,15cm)--cycle
    withpen pencircle
    scaled 0.5mm
    withcolor red;
  
  pair decal ;  decal := (0.0cm,-1.8cm) ;
  
  %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  pair PA ;  PA := (7.5cm,13.5cm) ;
    
  draw textext.urt ("URT-"  & MonTexte) shifted PA;
  draw textext.ulft("ULFT-" & MonTexte) shifted PA;
  draw textext.llft("LLFT-" & MonTexte) shifted PA;
  draw textext.lrt ("LRT-"  & MonTexte) shifted PA;
  
  draw PA withpen pencircle scaled 1.5mm  withcolor red;
  
  %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  pair PB ;  PB := PA shifted decal ;
    
  draw textext.drt ("DRT-"  & MonTexte) shifted PB;
  draw textext.dlft("DLFT-" & MonTexte) shifted PB;
  
  draw PB withpen pencircle scaled 1.5mm  withcolor red;
  
  %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  pair PC ;  PC := PB shifted decal ;
    
  draw textext.d("D-" & MonTexte) shifted PC;
  
  draw PC withpen pencircle scaled 1.5mm  withcolor red;
  
  %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  pair PD ;  PD := PC shifted decal ;
    
  draw textext.bot("BOT-" & MonTexte) shifted PD;
  draw textext.top("TOP-" & MonTexte) shifted PD;
  
  draw PD withpen pencircle scaled 1.5mm  withcolor red;
  
  %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  pair PE ;  PE := PD shifted decal ;
    
  draw textext.lft("LFT-" & MonTexte) shifted PE;
  draw textext.rt("RT-" & MonTexte)   shifted PE;
  
  draw PE withpen pencircle scaled 1.5mm  withcolor red;
  
  %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  pair PF ;  PF := PE shifted decal ;
    
  draw textext(MonTexte) shifted PF;
  
  draw PF withpen pencircle scaled 1.5mm  withcolor red;
  
  %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  pair PG ;  PG := PF shifted decal ;
    
  draw textext.origin("ORIGIN-" & MonTexte) shifted PG;
  
  draw PG withpen pencircle scaled 1.5mm  withcolor red;
  
  %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  pair PH ;  PH := PG shifted decal ;
    
  draw textext.raw("RAW-" & MonTexte) shifted PH;
  
  draw PH withpen pencircle scaled 1.5mm  withcolor red;
  
  %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  \stopMPpage
  
  \stoptext
  

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