From: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Subject: Re: MetaPost cutdraw
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 11:27:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b770f5ca-a500-68f8-02bc-c963cb0604bb@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bcb17da-11c4-8afe-f5a5-d6274d5e1e92@xs4all.nl>
Am 06.07.22 um 09:15 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
> On 7/6/2022 7:10 AM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I’m trying to understand MetaPost better.
>>>
>>> I’d like to draw a fat line that’s cut at its end points.
>>
>> You mean like linecap = butt?
Yes, but that doesn’t behave differently.
> \startMPpage[offset=5mm]
> path p;
>
> p := origin -- (7cm,0);
>
> interim linecap := squared;
>
> draw p withpen ((pensquare ) scaled 5mm) withcolor red ;
> draw envelope ((pensquare ) scaled 5mm) of p withcolor
> green ;
> draw envelope ((pensquare rotated eps) scaled 5mm) of p withcolor
> blue ;
> \stopMPpage
>
> (there is an "ontarget" chapter about envelopes; mikael and i spent
> quite some time figuring out a few things but in the end conclused that
> mp des the right thing given the strategy it folows but it definitely
> has side effects)
Thank you for the insight, but does that mean I can’t get my “butt
capped” lines and I must shorten the lines by half the pen size?
Hraban
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-05 22:10 Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-07-06 5:10 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2022-07-06 7:15 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-07-06 9:27 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context [this message]
2022-07-06 21:04 ` Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context
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