* Re: MetaPost with Multiple Variable Sections
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@ 2019-09-18 23:35 ` Jeong Dal
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From: Jeong Dal @ 2019-09-18 23:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear Jeroen,
If you change “pair a;” to “numeric a;” in the second MPcode, it draws a circle without error.
Best regards,
Dalyoung
>
> \placefloatright{}{
> \startMPcode
> pair a;
numeric a;
> a := 2cm;
> draw fullcircle scaled (2*a);
> \stopMPcode}
>
> \stoptext
>
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* Re: MetaPost with Multiple Variable Sections
2019-09-18 7:35 Jeroen
@ 2019-09-18 12:26 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2019-09-18 12:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, Jeroen wrote:
> \startMPcode
> pair a;
> a := 2cm;
You define a to be a pair and then assign it to a number. Metapost is
telling you that you cannot do that:
>> (xpart a,ypart a)
>> 56.6929
! Equation cannot be performed (pair=numeric).
<to be read again>
;
<*> pair a; a := 2cm;
draw fullcircle scaled (2*a); ;
I'm sorry, but I don't know how to make such things equal.
(See the two expressions just above the error message.)
You can fix that by saying
numeric a;
a := 2cm;
One needs to keep in mind that all the code in multiple MPcode
environments are run in the same scope. I occasonally use
\startMPcode
begingroup;
...
endgroup;
\stopMPcode
to avoid interference.
Aditya
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* MetaPost with Multiple Variable Sections
@ 2019-09-18 7:35 Jeroen
2019-09-18 12:26 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Jeroen @ 2019-09-18 7:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I have been working with MetaPost as following, which worked fine with one
startMPcode section with variables, but with 2 startMPcode Metapost
sections, it keeps telling me the numbers dont add up:
\definefloat [floatright][figure]
\setupfloat [floatright][default={right,none}]
\setuplayout [backspace=20mm,width=170mm,topspace=20mm,height=250mm]
\starttext
\placefloatright{}{
\startMPcode
pair a, b;
a := (0,0);
b := (50,50);
draw a -- b;
\stopMPcode}
\placefloatright{}{
\startMPcode
pair a;
a := 2cm;
draw fullcircle scaled (2*a);
\stopMPcode}
\stoptext
I also have tried with the startbuffer combination as below, but this gave
the same error codes. Is there any other way of working with multiple
MetaPost sections with variables in a single document?
\definefloat [floatright][figure]
\setupfloat [floatright][default={right,none}]
\setuplayout [backspace=20mm,width=170mm,topspace=20mm,height=250mm]
\starttext
\startbuffer
\startMPcode
pair a, b;
a := (0,0);
b := (50,50);
draw a -- b;
\stopMPcode
\stopbuffer
\floatright{}{\getbuffer}
\startbuffer
\startMPcode
pair a;
a := 2cm;
draw fullcircle scaled (2*a);
\stopMPcode
\stopbuffer
\floatright{}{\getbuffer}
\stoptext
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