From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: METAPOST: How do I get this 'max' cutafter to work?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:25:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <08207527-30d0-beee-c7f6-607dc8da93ac@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176DF5F-7B16-46A9-8ACE-496EB0E0F2C4@rna.nl>
On 4/21/2020 5:52 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> Pretty deep into MP now. Even looked up the reference in John Hobby’s
> manual to the METAFONT book, but that reference did not help.
in the end it all has to do with accuracy and rounding ... the
intersection_point trickery is probably less sensitive for that
but it's so long ago that i mp-tool was written that that part of my
mind probably has been overwritten, obscured or wiped
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-21 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-21 11:29 Gerben Wierda
2020-04-21 12:41 ` Hans Hagen
2020-04-21 15:52 ` Gerben Wierda
2020-04-21 16:25 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2020-04-22 7:30 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-04-22 8:17 ` luigi scarso
2020-04-22 20:12 ` Gerben Wierda
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