From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: question about followtext in MP
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 17:50:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac21007d-6b29-d223-8e46-8f0ce39c1bd3@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2c8ec4d-9051-1f39-00df-639802455b5f@xs4all.nl>
On 05/22/2018 10:22 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 5/22/2018 9:05 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> [...]
>> Is there any way to followtext in q without changing text direction?
>>
>> I need to write the text counter-clockwise, but on outside of the path.
>>
>> Reverse changes both text direction and side of the text (related to the
>> path) and I don’t want to change text direction.
> it will probably always look bad
>
> \startMPcode
> path p ; p := reverse halfcircle scaled (5cm + 0.5LineHeight);
> path q ; q := reverse halfcircle rotatedaround (origin, 180)
> scaled (5cm +1.3LineHeight);
> draw fullcircle scaled 5cm;;
> draw followtext(p, "\strut just follow the tokens\enspace") ;
> draw followtext(reverse q, "\strut just follow the
> tokens\enspace") ;
> \stopMPcode
Many thanks for your reply, Hans.
Is there any way to set origin to another value than (0, 0) in MP?
I realize it might sound weird, but it would make things easier in an
example that I’m working on.
Many thanks for your help,
Pablo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-23 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-22 19:05 Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-22 20:22 ` Hans Hagen
2018-05-23 15:50 ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2018-05-23 16:05 ` Hans Hagen
2018-05-23 16:34 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-23 16:40 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-23 17:19 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-23 19:06 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-23 21:24 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-24 16:11 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-24 16:30 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-24 18:27 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-23 16:10 ` Alan Braslau
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