On Wed, 2 May 2012 21:42:24 +0200 Marco <net...@lavabit.com> wrote: > On 2012-05-02 Alan BRASLAU <alan.bras...@cea.fr> 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________