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From: Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: passvariable(); path problem
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:02:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525294C0.10204@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsCBxx=N8OUAyZuLveCtzQTyW7hoT-1reWaduNome_DLeg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 07.10.2013 11:47, schrieb luigi scarso:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net
> <mailto:indiego@gmx.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Am 06.10.2013 17:06, schrieb Hans Hagen:
>     > On 10/6/2013 3:05 PM, Peter Rolf wrote:
>     >
>     >> Thanks for the explanation. I think I have understood the scheme
>     (but I
>     >> might be wrong, because this doesn't help me with my example).
>     >>
>     >> Where is the starting point['20 20'] in the returned example
>     path? Same
>     >> is true for the first control point ['20 190.34']. Either I'm missing
>     >> something, or the returned path data is incomplete.
>     >
>     > you get just the value of the path variable in your mp code, not a
>     ps or
>     > whatever representation and in mp a path has just points so the
>     starting
>     > point is the x y of the first point
>     >
> 
>     I tested several examples and the only time that the starting point was
>     part of the returned path was, when the path only consists of one point.
>     In all other cases it was missing.
> 
>     This is a bit contrary to my definition of a (complete) path. Anyhow,
>     thanks for the pointer :-)
> 
> 
> in mp-mlib.mpiv should be :
> vardef mfun_path_to_string(expr p) =
>     mfun_point_to_string(p,0) for i=1 upto length(p) : & " " &
> mfun_point_to_string(p,i) endfor
> enddef ;
> 
> 
> (You can fix it and rebuild the format. To understand the output, is
> better to know that mfun_point_to_string is
> 
>  vardef mfun_point_to_string(expr p,i) =
>     decimal xpart (point       i of p) & " " &
>     decimal ypart (point       i of p) & " " &
>     decimal xpart (precontrol  i of p) & " " &
>     decimal ypart (precontrol  i of p) & " " &
>     decimal xpart (postcontrol i of p) & " " &
>     decimal ypart (postcontrol i of p)
> enddef ;
> 
> )
> 
> 
> -- 
> luigi

@Luigi: thanks for the fix!

@Hans: quickanddirty sounds promising (bbox is needed anyway) :-D

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-07 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-04 12:52 Peter Rolf
2013-10-04 14:15 ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-04 14:47   ` Peter Rolf
2013-10-04 14:59     ` Peter Rolf
2013-10-05 15:52   ` Peter Rolf
2013-10-05 22:37     ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-06 13:05       ` Peter Rolf
2013-10-06 15:06         ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-07  8:48           ` Peter Rolf
2013-10-07  9:47             ` luigi scarso
2013-10-07 10:03               ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-07 11:02               ` Peter Rolf [this message]

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