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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: overlay
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 06:40:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <08544517-7C2E-4C4A-92C8-21270FF13F18@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24F8D443-4B30-4BC3-BDBF-D78E96A4BCC1@inradius.net>


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> Am 22.11.2014 um 21:32 schrieb John Kitzmiller <kitz@inradius.net>:
> 
> Given rectangles with text:
> 
> \starttext
> Before:\\
> \startMPcode
>   draw unitsquare xscaled 2cm yscaled 1cm;  
> \stopMPcode
> \\
> After:\\
> \startMPcode
>   for i=0 upto 1:
>     draw unitsquare scaled 1cm xshifted i*cm;
>   endfor;
> \stopMPcode
> \stoptext
> 
> How can a line be drawn connecting the right edges of the rectangles? I have played with:
> 
> \startuniqueMPgraphic{line}
>   path a;
>   a:=(0,0)--(0,3cm);
>   draw a withpen pencircle scaled 3pt withcolor green;
> \stopuniqueMPgraphic
> 
> \defineoverlay[line][{\uniqueMPgraphic{line}}]
> 
> and using it in \framed, but placing the line correctly is elusive.

Look at chapter 5 in the metafun manual.

Wolfgang


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-25  5:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-22 20:32 overlay John Kitzmiller
2014-11-24 11:02 ` overlay Peter Rolf
2014-11-25  5:40 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2014-11-25  0:21 overlay John Kitzmiller

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