Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost cutdraw

2022-07-06 Thread Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context
Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 11:29 AM Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: > > Am 06.07.22 um 09:15 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: > > On 7/6/2022 7:10 AM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: > >> On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, I’m trying

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost cutdraw

2022-07-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 06.07.22 um 09:15 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: On 7/6/2022 7:10 AM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: Hi, I’m trying to understand MetaPost better. I’d like to draw a fat line that’s cut at its end points. You

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost cutdraw

2022-07-06 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 7/6/2022 7:10 AM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: Hi, I’m trying to understand MetaPost better. I’d like to draw a fat line that’s cut at its end points. You mean like linecap = butt? \startMPpage[offset=5mm] path

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost cutdraw

2022-07-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: > Hi, I’m trying to understand MetaPost better. > > I’d like to draw a fat line that’s cut at its end points. You mean like linecap = butt? \startMPpage[offset=5mm] path p; p := origin -- (7cm,0); interim linecap := butt;

[NTG-context] MetaPost cutdraw

2022-07-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi, I’m trying to understand MetaPost better. I’d like to draw a fat line that’s cut at its end points. I learned, “cutdraw” should do the trick, but I get a parallelogram instead of a rectangle. What’s wrong? Hraban \startMPpage draw (0,20)--(20,20) withpen pensquare scaled 10; cutdraw