[cl-typesetting-devel] Generated text inside (compile-text () ...(paragraph ...))

[Marc Battyani]

"Björn Lindberg" <d95-bli at nada.kth.se> wrote:

>I want to do something like the following, but it seems it doesn't
>work because the FORMAT form is not evaluated.
>
>  (pdf:with-document ()
>    (pdf:with-page ()
>      (let ((content (compile-text ()
>       (paragraph (:h-align :left :font "Helvetica"
>    :font-size 10)
>(format nil "Some kind of text ~F" 0.75) :eol
>"Testing again" :eol))))
>(draw-block content 100 741 395 641)))
>    (pdf:write-document file))
>
>Is it possible, or do I have to assign it to a variable outside of the
>macros?

Just use typeset:format-string (without the nil) instead of format.

Marc