From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: MetaPost Examples
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 14:45:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <63346eba-15eb-301d-c38f-ee3a53873b89@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2BE5EABC-68E9-408C-894F-84CE46423C06@fiee.net>
On 9/1/2021 2:19 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi, I’m trying to “translate” the documentation of “fiziko”* from LaTeX to ConTeXt and would like to avoid the doubling of MP code like:
>
> \startMP
> path p;
> p := (0,0){dir(30)}..(5cm, 0)..{dir(30)}(10cm, 0);
> draw brush (p)(2minStrokeWidth*sin(offsetPathLength*pi));
> \stopMP
>
> \startMPcode
> path p;
> p := (0,0){dir(30)}..(5cm, 0)..{dir(30)}(10cm, 0);
> draw brush (p)(2minStrokeWidth*sin(offsetPathLength*pi));
> \stopMPcode
>
> I’m quite sure there’s a possibility with buffers, but how?
>
> \startbuffer
> path p;
> p := (0,0){dir(30)}..(5cm, 0)..{dir(30)}(10cm, 0);
> draw brush (p)(2minStrokeWidth*sin(offsetPathLength*pi));
> \stopbuffer
>
> \typebuffer
>
> ... and then how do I get the MP graphic?
\processMPbuffer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-01 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-01 12:19 Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-09-01 12:45 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2021-09-01 13:50 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
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2001-08-24 14:06 metapost examples Patrick Gundlach
2001-08-24 20:58 ` Arun Mangalam
2001-04-29 18:50 Marc van Dongen
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