From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3576 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MetaFun Date: 12 Dec 2000 11:18:29 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <20001211135633.R1834@cs.ucc.ie> <20001212154810.F1834@cs.ucc.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394305 18274 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:31:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:31:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mailing List Original-To: Marc van Dongen In-Reply-To: Marc van Dongen's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:48:10 +0000" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3576 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3576 Marc van Dongen writes: > Ed L Cashin (ecashin@coe.uga.edu) wrote: > > [snip] > > : I don't know if this is your style or if it fits your application, but > : instead of writing out a long list of points, I sometimes find it > : easier to use a for loop. > : > : I can declare a metapost array for holding points or paths, and then > : initialize it using a for loop and some simple math. It makes the > : code much easier to read, understand, and maintain. > > What I meant was that I didn't know what the coordinates > were at all. I used xfig to draw part of the picture and > made it dump the coordinates so that I could use them in > metapost. It seems a bit convoluted. Oh! Neat that xfig does that. I misunderstood. :) -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/