> On 1 May 2020, at 17:33, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wie...@rna.nl> wrote: > > > >> On 1 May 2020, at 17:10, Henning Hraban Ramm <te...@fiee.net> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Am 01.05.2020 um 10:26 schrieb Gerben Wierda <gerben.wie...@rna.nl>: >>> >>> I have been looking at lmt_followtext and followtext to get typesetting >>> done along a path. That works fine, except that in my case, I need the text >>> to not be exactly on that path, I need it to hover slightly above tor below >>> he path. Given that the path may have an unpredictable form, that means >>> that all the glyphs need to be shifted a bit, there is no generic transfrom >>> of the entire text string that will work, >> >> Can’t you duplicate and shift the path, i.e. keep the original visible and >> make the copy that carries the text invisible? That’s what I would do in a >> graphical application, but I would be surprised if MP wouldn’t know a >> transformation for this purpose. > > No, that is what I did in the example, fiddling, but there is no > transformation that will work in all cases. E.g. on the left side of the > bump, I need to go to the upper left, on the right side to the upper right. > There is no single shift that helps me. Nor a scale rotation or shift > combination. That could be managed by only going up (though the distance to > the path would vary, on the sides the text would be very close or on the top > it would be too far.) >
There is an example, at the link below, of creating a parallel path that claims to cope with sharp bends in the original path. You might be able to adapt it? <https://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/metapost#shuttering_two_parallel_lines> -- Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
