Re: lmtx update / teaser

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 3/1/2021 6:27 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Thank you for the new upload.
> 
> The teaser examples work fine, many thanks !
> I have a question though: how can one center within a page a text, for example typeset in a circular shape? I tried with \startalignment, and also with \startplacefigure but none of these gives a centered circular shape.
> 
> Also I noticed that if one removes the comment at the end of \startshapedparagraph, or add a blank line after that, then the circular shape is destroyed: is this on purpose ?
\starttext

\startuseMPgraphic{circleBis}
     lmt_parshape [
         path       = fullcircle scaled 90mm,
         offset     = 2mm,
         bottomskip = - 1.5LineHeight,
     ] ;
\stopuseMPgraphic

\startplacefigure[align=middle,number=no]
     \framed[width=90mm,offset=2mm,align=normal]\bgroup
         \startshapedparagraph
             [list=circle,mp=circleBis,repeat=yes,method=repeat]%
             \setupalign[verytolerant,stretch,last]\dontcomplain
             {\darkred \samplefile{thuan}}
         \stopshapedparagraph
     \egroup
\stopplacefigure

\stoptext

We're talking parshapes here, think of

\parshape 2
   2mm 10cm
   4mm 12cm

or

\parshape 2
   options 1 % force a repeat
   2mm 10cm
   4mm 12cm

but then nicely wrapped in a macro. The circle is (cf metafun manual) 
converted into such a parshape. A parshape is forgotten when a new 
paragraph is started, but ... we have extra magic that revives them 
which is why the multi-page-par examples work too. The cycle and repeat 
methods do that (using abit diufferent tricks than the 20 year old one 
but not that different); these methods are independent of the parshape's 
repeat option itself, which is an engine feature.

Messing with left/right 'align' will also bring left/rightskip into the 
game so normally you will not do that. I admit it take a bit of 
imagination to get the picture. The 'last' keyword is some old context 
feature that centers the last line (which looks nicer in a circle) which
is using some parfillskip magic.

Hans


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