From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3575 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marc van Dongen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MetaFun Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:48:10 +0000 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20001212154810.F1834@cs.ucc.ie> References: <20001211135633.R1834@cs.ucc.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394304 18265 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mailing List Original-To: Ed L Cashin In-Reply-To: ; from ecashin@coe.uga.edu on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:35:51AM -0500 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3575 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3575 Ed L Cashin (ecashin@coe.uga.edu) wrote: [snip] : I don't know if this is your style or if it fits your application, but : instead of writing out a long list of points, I sometimes find it : easier to use a for loop. : : I can declare a metapost array for holding points or paths, and then : initialize it using a for loop and some simple math. It makes the : code much easier to read, understand, and maintain. What I meant was that I didn't know what the coordinates were at all. I used xfig to draw part of the picture and made it dump the coordinates so that I could use them in metapost. It seems a bit convoluted. Regards. Marc