Why do I get the feeling nobody is going to answer this? In all seriousness, I don’t know enough about lilypond to know if this is even possible or not, which is a dark state of ignorance. If the Scheme gods could let me know if I am barking up an entirely impossible tree, that may save me from wandering in the wilderness. The archives seem very silent on this topic.
Thanks! Since I discovered lilypond postscript units are staff-spaces and not points, and that the postscript coordinate origin is at the reference point of the ground in question, a better example of showing an arrow is: 0 0 20 4 0.3 1.2 1.2 arrow So, in short, I need to understand if it is possible to pass parameters (seven in this case) to a postscript procedure in the context of a markup expression. Andrew On 13 March 2015 at 16:04:30, Andrew Bernard ([email protected]) wrote: Greetings list, I want to make many different types of arrows using PostScript. The following function from the Adobe Blue Book works very nicely for what I need. It’s quite general. The question is, how do I incorporate something of this level of complexity this into a form where it can be invoked with \postscript in a \markup block? %!PS-Adobe-3.0 /arrowdict 14 dict def arrowdict begin /mtrx matrix def end /arrow { arrowdict begin /headlength exch def /halfheadthickness exch 2 div def /halfthickness exch 2 div def /tipy exch def /tipx exch def /taily exch def /tailx exch def /dx tipx tailx sub def /dy tipy taily sub def /arrowlength dx dx mul dy dy mul add sqrt def /angle dy dx atan def /base arrowlength headlength sub def /savematrix mtrx currentmatrix def tailx taily translate angle rotate 0 halfthickness neg moveto base halfthickness neg lineto base halfheadthickness neg lineto arrowlength 0 lineto base halfheadthickness lineto base halfthickness lineto 0 halfthickness lineto closepath savematrix setmatrix end } def An example of use in raw PostScript: newpath 318 340 72 340 10 30 72 arrow fill Andrew
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