Re: Using MPgraphics as externalfigures?

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, Mari Voipio wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm being a bit clueless about the MPgraphics again...
>
> I've got a pile of instructional graphics that will be used and reused
> in a project. My first try is/was an unwieldy buffer construction, but
> I'm sure there's a better way than
>
> \placefigure[here]
> 	[fig: 5 loop departed setup]
> 	{The start position for a 5-loop braid with departed loops}
> 	{\framed{\getbuffer[setup 5-loop basic]}}
>
>
> Come to think of it, is there another way of framing the incoming
> graphic? I don't want to include the frames in the MPcode as I may not
> always want them, but that \framed{\getbuffer} construction is
> downright ugly.

(Untested code, but this should work)

\startbuffer[figure 1]
   draw fullcircle scaled 1cm;
\stopbuffer

\startbuffer[frame]
   draw (bbox currentpicture) withcolor blue;
\stopbuffer

\processMPbuffer[figure 1, frame]

Basically, you can concatinate various buffers in \processMPbuffer.

Aditya
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