Re: question about followtext in MP

[Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>]

On 05/23/2018 07:19 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2018 18:40:14 +0200 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> I have tried to add the shifted option to the path definition and
>> drawing and there was no shift in the MP page.
> 
> (If you only have one MPpage, then there is no need for \starttext\stoptext).
> 
>   \edef\TextInside{Just follow the tokens}
>   \startMPpage
>     path p ; p := reverse halfcircle scaled .6TextWidth;
>     path q ; q := halfcircle rotatedaround (origin, 180)
>         scaled (.6TextWidth + .75LineHeight);
>     %~ draw fullcircle scaled .6TextWidth;
>     draw followtext(p, "·\TextInside") ;
>     draw followtext(q, "\TextInside·") ;
>     path s ; s := (dir30--dir150--dir315--dir90--dir225--cycle) scaled .3TextWidth ;
>     for i=0 upto 500 :
>       draw textext("\utfchar{"EB09}") scaled .5
>         shifted point (i/500*length s) of s ;
>     endfor
>   \stopMPpage

Many thanks for your help, Alan.

I didn’t know that dir even existed.

So I get a much better star that the one I tried before.

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo
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