From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Metafun: how to draw a straight line past the end points
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 12:37:24 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.78.908.2012091235500.368852@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A514D21-0038-4993-9D5D-B4A62F1D8558@gmail.com>
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, Otared Kavian wrote:
> Thanks a lot ! Indeed that does the job, which shows how wonderful Metafun is !
Or, if you want to use high school algebra:
\starttext
\startMPcode
z1 = (1cm,3cm) ;
z2 = (5cm, 9cm) ;
z3 = 1cm * dir(angle (z2 - z1)) shifted z2;
draw z1 -- z3 ;
draw z1 -- z2 withcolor red;
\stopMPcode
\stoptext
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-09 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-09 15:57 Otared Kavian
2020-12-09 16:19 ` Fabrice L
2020-12-09 17:11 ` Otared Kavian
2020-12-09 17:37 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2020-12-09 19:34 ` Otared Kavian
2020-12-09 20:38 ` Aditya Mahajan
2020-12-09 21:19 ` Otared Kavian
2020-12-09 22:01 ` Hans Hagen
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