On Wed, 2 May 2012 21:42:24 +0200
Marco <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-05-02 Alan BRASLAU <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > For example, in the minimal example below, how can one obtain
> > a transparent arrow without getting an X-ray vision of the
> > arrowhead?
>
> Maybe I'm reinventing the wheel here, but you can write a small
> macro that only draws the lines you want. Here is an idea:
>
> \starttext
> \startMPpage
>
> linecap := squared;
> penscale := .5bp;
> pickup pencircle scaled penscale;
>
> def drawmyarrow expr p = _apth:=p; _myfinarr enddef;
> def _myfinarr text t =
> draw _apth cutafter point (-ahlength+.1penscale) on
> _apth t; fill arrowhead _apth t
> enddef;
>
> drawarrow origin -- (1cm,0) withtransparency(1,.5) ;
> drawarrow origin -- (0,1cm) withtransparency(1,.5) ;
> drawmyarrow (1.5cm,0) -- (2.5cm,0) withtransparency(1,.5) ;
> drawmyarrow (1.5cm,0) -- (1.5cm,1cm) withtransparency(1,.5) ;
>
> \stopMPpage
> \stoptext
>
> The (-ahlength+.1penscale) are of course empiric. You should find
> the correct formula to always have a nice match of line and arrow
> whatever ahlength and ahangle values are in use.
>
> Marco
Yes, this is somewhat reinventing the wheel.
I believe that this is somewhat a bug with transparency under MetaFun.
For I tried the following:
\startMPcode
picture pic ; pic := image(drawarrow origin--(1cm,0)) ;
draw pic withtransparency(1,.5) ;
draw pic rotated 90 withtransparency(1,.5) ;
\stopMPcode
Here, the arrowhead is totally opaque and only the "stem"
has transparency. Something is fishy.
Alan
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