From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
Subject: Re: question about followtext in MP
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 18:05:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d91752c-5b21-8198-daa7-cf5717f86e47@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac21007d-6b29-d223-8e46-8f0ce39c1bd3@gmx.es>
On 5/23/2018 5:50 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 05/22/2018 10:22 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 5/22/2018 9:05 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>> [...]
>>> Is there any way to followtext in q without changing text direction?
>>>
>>> I need to write the text counter-clockwise, but on outside of the path.
>>>
>>> Reverse changes both text direction and side of the text (related to the
>>> path) and I don’t want to change text direction.
>> it will probably always look bad
>>
>> \startMPcode
>> path p ; p := reverse halfcircle scaled (5cm + 0.5LineHeight);
>> path q ; q := reverse halfcircle rotatedaround (origin, 180)
>> scaled (5cm +1.3LineHeight);
>> draw fullcircle scaled 5cm;;
>> draw followtext(p, "\strut just follow the tokens\enspace") ;
>> draw followtext(reverse q, "\strut just follow the
>> tokens\enspace") ;
>> \stopMPcode
>
> Many thanks for your reply, Hans.
>
> Is there any way to set origin to another value than (0, 0) in MP?
>
> I realize it might sound weird, but it would make things easier in an
> example that I’m working on.
redefining origin is a bad idea (don't expect help if you do that)
you can alway sdo
currentpicture := currentpicture shifted - center currentpicture;
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-23 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-22 19:05 Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-22 20:22 ` Hans Hagen
2018-05-23 15:50 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-23 16:05 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2018-05-23 16:34 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-23 16:40 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-23 17:19 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-23 19:06 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-23 21:24 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-24 16:11 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-24 16:30 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-24 18:27 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-23 16:10 ` Alan Braslau
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