* some secret mp commands
@ 2000-10-16 7:39 Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2000-10-16 7:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi mp friends,
While I was playing a bit with the graph macros that come with mpost
[actually, extending the format package] i uncovered some commands that are
not defined in the mp manual, but nevertheless quite interesting. I will
cover them in the metafun manual, but here is already an impression:
vardef inverted expr p =
save pp ; picture pp ; pp := nullpicture ;
for i within p :
addto pp if stroked i : doublepath else : contour fi pathpart i
dashed dashpart i withpen penpart i
withcolor white-(redpart i, greenpart i, bluepart i) ;
endfor ;
pp
enddef ;
beginfig(1)
colorcircle(10cm,red,green,blue) ;
currentpicture := inverted currentpicture ;
endfig ;
So, one can disassemble a picture using a within loop and *part primitives!
Another one is truecorners but I still have to find out what it does. [i
found a few more by browsing the mp.pool file, like fontsize that reports
the real font size [so something infont "string" at size is now possible.]
Hans
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