On 05/23/2018 07:19 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2018 18:40:14 +0200 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> I have tried to add the shifted option to the path definition and
>> drawing and there was no shift in the MP page.
>
> (If you only have one MPpage, then there is no need for \starttext\stoptext).
>
> \edef\TextInside{Just follow the tokens}
> \startMPpage
> path p ; p := reverse halfcircle scaled .6TextWidth;
> path q ; q := halfcircle rotatedaround (origin, 180)
> scaled (.6TextWidth + .75LineHeight);
> %~ draw fullcircle scaled .6TextWidth;
> draw followtext(p, "·\TextInside") ;
> draw followtext(q, "\TextInside·") ;
> path s ; s := (dir30--dir150--dir315--dir90--dir225--cycle) scaled
> .3TextWidth ;
> for i=0 upto 500 :
> draw textext("\utfchar{"EB09}") scaled .5
> shifted point (i/500*length s) of s ;
> endfor
> \stopMPpage
Many thanks for your help, Alan.
I didn’t know that dir even existed.
So I get a much better star that the one I tried before.
Many thanks for your help,
Pablo
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