From: Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour? Metapost om connection with MPpage
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:47:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4012AFC0.9040404@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040124105349.02eccd30@server-1>
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Hi Hans,
Hm, tried to use
\starttext
\startMPpage
\useMPgraphic{\Pict}
\stopMPpage
\stoptext
error:
>> useMPgraphic
! Isolated expression.
<to be read again>
{
l.224 \useMPgraphic {
Test} ;
?
Otherwise this works:
\starttext
\useMPgraphic{\Pict}
\stoptext
Strange, I am stumied...
Willi
Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 23:45 16/01/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently I am preparing a series of figures. I use the approach
>> given in Metafun:
>>
>> \startuseMPgraphic{test}
>> ...
>> code
>> ...
>> \stopuseMPgraphic
>>
>> \starttext
>> \startMPpage
>> \includeMPgraphic{test}
>> \stopMPpage
>> % \useMPgraphic
>
>
> \useMPgraphic{test} % otherwise it is \useMPgraphic{\stoptext}
>
>> \stoptext
>
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\setupoutput[pdftex]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\def\PICT{Test}
\startMPenvironment
\setupbodyfont[ss,8pt]
\stopMPenvironment
\setupMPvariables
[\PICT]
[linecolor=blue,
gap=.2\bodyfontsize]
\startuseMPgraphic{\PICT}{linecolor,gap}
% the following definition is taken from mp-back.mp and adapted
% in order to be able to fill a given path with a pattern
def some_stripe (expr awidth ,
aheight ,
alinewidth ,
alinecolor ,
aangle ,
agap ,
ashape_path ) =
stripe_gap := agap ;
stripe_angle := aangle ;
drawoptions (withpen pencircle scaled alinewidth
withcolor alinecolor) ;
path p ; p := ashape_path ;
stripe_path_a () (draw) p ;
enddef;
def gluedraw(expr gluepath)=
path shape_path; shape_path := gluepath;
some_stripe
(height,
width,
linewidth,
\MPvar{linecolor},
angle,
\MPvar{gap},
shape_path);
enddef ;
numeric u; u := 5mm;
numeric width; width := 100u;
numeric height; height := 50u;
numeric angle; angle := 45 ;
numeric linewidth; linewidth :=.5pt;
path sq; sq = (0,0)--(10u,0)--(12u,5u)--(10u,10u)--(0,10u) --cycle ;
fill sq withcolor \MPcolor{red} ;
gluedraw(sq);
\stopuseMPgraphic
\starttext
% \startMPpage
% \useMPgraphic{\PICT}
% \stopMPpage
\useMPgraphic{\PICT}
\stoptext
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-24 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 22:45 Willi Egger
2004-01-24 9:54 ` Hans Hagen
2004-01-24 17:47 ` Willi Egger [this message]
2004-01-24 19:08 ` Hans Hagen
2004-01-25 17:16 ` Willi Egger
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