From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/34344 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Arnold Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Keeping it single valued Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:01:15 -0700 Message-ID: <038B14B4-72BC-4061-BCFA-74F6A97FEF5A@suddenlink.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176962576 29390 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2007 06:02:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:02:56 +0000 (UTC) To: Context Mailing List List Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 19 08:02:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HePjD-0006GT-0W for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:02:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634A31FFE0; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:02:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24351-01-25; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:02:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0081FFD9; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:02:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44D31FFD9 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:02:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24351-01-24 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:02:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from omta01.suddenlink.net (omta01-pub.suddenlink.net [208.180.40.73]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9261FFD2 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:02:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.0.1.3] (really [75.111.18.179]) by omta01.suddenlink.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070419060235.FNDF9945.omta01.suddenlink.net@[10.0.1.3]> for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:02:35 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:34344 Archived-At: All, This example from the Metapost manual is beyond my expertise. The second figure is sweet, just what I would want. Can anyone wax philosophic for a bit and explain why the y-scaling keeps the second function single valued? starttext \startbuffer[figure] numeric scf, t[]; 3.2scf=2.4in; path fun; fun:=(0,-1)..(1,.5){right}..(1.9,.2){right}..{curl .1}(3.2,2); fun:=fun scaled scf; draw fun; \stopbuffer \placefigure [][fig:one] {Caption.} {\processMPbuffer[figure]} \startbuffer[figure] numeric scf, yscl, t[]; 3.2scf=2.4in; path fun; yscl=.1; %keep the function single valued fun:=(0,-1yscl)..(1,.5yscl){right}..(1.9,.2yscl){right}..{curl .1} (3.2,2yscl); fun:=fun yscaled (1/yscl); fun:=fun scaled scf; draw fun; \stopbuffer \placefigure [][fig:one] {Caption.} {\processMPbuffer[figure]} \stoptext