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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: MP newbie question
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:58:08 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0905181555060.14775@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <326847810905181145p77ce2388q1d4500bbb55c09f7@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Alan Stone wrote:

> Hi,
> How do you make this work ?
>
> --- mpframed.tex ---
>
> %\def\myFrameAlternative{line}
> %\def\myFrameAlternative{dashes}
> \def\myFrameAlternative{dots}

I usually do (untested)

\chardef\myFrameAlternative 
\myFrameAlternative \zerocount %(or \plusone or \plustwo)

and then

> \startuniqueMPgraphic{name}
>
> path p ;
>
> p := unitsquare xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight ;
> show (\myFrameAlternative) ;

\ifcase \myFramedAlternative
  draw p dashed evenly scaled 2 ;
\or
  draw p dashed with dots scaled 2 ;
\or
  draw p;
\fi


> if \myFrameAlternative = dashes :
> % if (\myFrameAlternative) = dashes :
> draw p dashed evenly scaled 2 ;
> % elseif (\myFrameAlternative) = dots :
> elseif \myFrameAlternative = dots :
> draw p dashed withdots scaled 2 ;
> else :
> draw p ;
> fi ;
> \stopuniqueMPgraphic
>
> \defineoverlay[myGraphic][\uniqueMPgraphic{name}]
>
> \starttext
>
> \framed[%
> offset=5mm,
> background=myGraphic,
> frame=off]
> {mp framed}
>
> \stoptext

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-18 18:45 Alan Stone
2009-05-18 19:58 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2009-05-19  6:02 ` Alan Stone

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