In article
<771da05a1002251718l55669a0co770b5a78bed84...@mail.gmail.com>,
James Fisher <jameshfis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This isn't specifically a ConTeXt question, but via it I've run into a
> seemingly simple problem in METAPOST that I just can't solve. I'm
> trying to draw a parallelogram by specifying: (1) the length of sides
> parallel to the x-axis; (2) the total height of the figure; (3) one of
> the interior angles.
Curiously enough, nobody has posted a solution that uses 'whatever', so
here it is:
z0 = origin; % bottom left
z1 = (5,0); % bottom right
y3 = y2 = 10;
z3 = z0 + whatever*dir(87); % z3 is obtained by starting at z0 and
% moving along dir(87)
z2-z1 = whatever*(z3-z0); % The line z1--z2 is parallel to z0--z3
That is, what you were trying to achieve:
angle(z3-z0) = dir(87);
can be written instead:
z3 - z0 = whatever*dir(87);
Nicola
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