From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: double followtokens?
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 23:17:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456c1bb3-0dea-5f34-e9f3-69e441d15d85@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1039c60-8380-0680-f777-58cf464fadeb@gmx.es>
On 4/8/2018 8:10 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 04/08/2018 04:41 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 4/8/2018 12:11 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I want a full circle in two halves with the same duplicated sentence.
>>> The first one written clockwise and the second one written
>>> counterclockwise (as in the commented path above).
>>>
>>> I hope it is clearer now.
>>
>> path p ; p := reverse halfcircle scaled 5cm ;
>> path q ; q := reverse halfcircle scaled 5cm rotated 180 ;
>>
>> path q ; q := reverse halfcircle scaled 5cm rotated 180 ;
>>
>> \followtokens{~this way~}
>> \followtokens{\reversedtext{~this way~}}
>
> Many thanks for the reply, Hans.
>
> I don’t know what I’m missing here, but I cannot get your code working.
> Here you have the full sample:
>
> \useMPlibrary[txt]
>
> \starttext
> \startuseMPgraphic{followtokens}
> path p ; p := reverse halfcircle scaled 5cm ;
> path q ; q := reverse halfcircle scaled 5cm rotated 180 ;
>
> path q ; q := reverse halfcircle scaled 5cm rotated 180 ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> \followtokens{~this way~}
> \followtokens{\reversedtext{~this way~}}
> \stoptext
>
> \reversedtext is undefined (I’m using beta from 2018.04.04 00:51).
of course it it ... it's basically the lua snippet i sent a few mails ago
> But even commenting that second command, \followtokens seems to require
> that path is named RotPath to be used the text. I get the standard line.
sure, that's how it works (at least with that module ... that trickery
dates from mkii)
> What am I doing wrong here?
probably using a mechanism in away that is a bit ovet the top
(so you can wait till the embedded variant shows up)
>> we will have this in metafun:
>>
>> followtext("this way",p) ;
>>
>> so that one can do it all in mp ... a nice gimmick for the ctx meeting
>
> This will be incredibly handy.
i wonder, not many users run into this feature (kind of coincidence that
we have two reports this month) .. it's mostly that i was curious if it
could be integrated that i looked into it
> Many thanks for your help,
>
> Pablo
>
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-07 21:04 Pablo Rodriguez
2018-04-07 21:25 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-07 22:11 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-04-08 14:41 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-08 14:56 ` Build for Alpine Linux Brian Hunt
2018-04-08 20:50 ` Mojca Miklavec
2018-04-08 21:09 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2018-04-08 21:26 ` Henri Menke
2018-04-08 21:45 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2018-04-09 0:50 ` Henri Menke
2018-04-09 18:59 ` Brian Hunt
2018-04-09 19:35 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2018-04-10 11:05 ` Brian Hunt
2018-04-10 12:26 ` Brian Hunt
2018-04-10 16:27 ` Alan Braslau
2018-04-10 20:55 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2018-04-11 12:30 ` Brian Hunt
2018-04-11 20:08 ` Brian Hunt
2018-04-11 20:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2018-04-11 20:37 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-11 21:08 ` Brian Hunt
2018-04-13 11:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2018-04-13 11:42 ` Henri Menke
2018-04-13 19:54 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2018-04-13 20:02 ` Aditya Mahajan
2018-04-13 12:49 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-11 23:13 ` Henri Menke
2018-04-13 10:37 ` Brian Hunt
[not found] ` <CALBOmsaXyTXhR=j6Ht1LwKGcfxMD4sHjQnEOxtjH-4gc3b5R8g@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20180417152547.GA1755070@phare.normalesup.org>
2018-04-17 15:54 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2018-04-08 18:10 ` double followtokens? Pablo Rodriguez
2018-04-08 21:17 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2018-04-09 18:25 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2019-01-01 18:17 ` Hans van der Meer
2019-01-01 20:17 ` Hans Hagen
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