From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Yury G. Kudryashov" <urkud@ya.ru>
Subject: Re: Another TikZ problem with "!"
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:40:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF963C1.7010308@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <idau93$52c$1@dough.gmane.org>
On 3-12-2010 3:19, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Color is not the only place where TikZ treats "!" in a special way. For
> example, in TikZ/LaTeX you can say:
>
> \coordinate (A) at (0, 0);
> \coordinate (B) at (1, 0);
> \coordinate (C) at ($ (A)!.3!(B) $); % z.C = .3[z.A, z.B] in MetaPost
> \coordinate (D) at (2, 1);
> \coordinate (E) at ($ (A)!(B)!(D) $); % projection of (B) to (A)--(D).
>
> This code fails in ConTeXt because "!" is made a "normal" character.
if tokens have a special meaning, then it's up to tikz to deal with it
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