From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28658 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Metapost: point along path and metaobj Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:03:32 +0200 Message-ID: <4496AEB4.6020108@elvenkind.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150725847 32500 80.91.229.2 (19 Jun 2006 14:04:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 19 16:04:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FsKM0-0000RD-2q for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:03:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F441283A; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:03:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06204-05; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:03:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFB412842; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:03:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9793812842 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:03:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06203-05-2 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:03:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from post-25.mail.nl.demon.net (post-25.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.195]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 58AE01283A for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:03:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:56860 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-25.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1FsKLk-000Jaz-GK for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:03:32 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:28658 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hi, > > Something goes wrong while using metaobj and point something along > somepath. I do not know if point ... along... is a mp core command or > something introduced by metafun. Is this metafun's fault, metaobj's > fault or simply a metapost issue (and thus I should ask on the It is Metaobj's fault, it redefines (and therefore blocks access to) the primitive command arctime. So I guess you should complain to Denis Roegel (at the very least he should save the primitive arctime under a different name). A workaround (I think) is this: input metaobj; primarydef pct along pat = arctime (pct,pat) of pat enddef ; Taco