Am 13.01.24 um 15:54 schrieb Gavin via ntg-context:
One pretty MetaPost drawing option is the byrne package by Sergey Slyusarev,
which he used (with ConTeXt) to reproduce Oliver Byrne’s 1847 quirky edition on
the first six books of Euclid’s “Elements”. All of the drawing is in MetaPost,
and
Ali Ali schrieb am 08.01.2024 um 23:53:
Since in the "setup-en.pdf" on p. 234, in "\setuplayout" the possible values for "grid" key is
"yes", "no" (default), and "off" respectively.
The commands in the document are not always up to date and somtimes miss
entries or list no longer valid ones,
Can we please add
https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid/blob/master/byrne.mp to Wiki
because files have a tendency to disappear?
Similarly, can we please add
https://github.com/thruston/Drawing-with-Metapost/blob/main/Drawing-with-Metapost.pdf
file to Wiki?
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Respect,
Shiv Shankar Dayal
Am 13.01.24 um 21:09 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
Here’s the image:
https://yemaya.fiee.net/s/8TqwfcP7mLMmy9p
(In a simple document it works.)
I found a workaround: I opened the file with Inkscape and converted
everything in curves. The PDF is even smaller now, and it proves that
the problem
(LMTX, latest beta with self-compiled binary on OSX-intel.)
With my book, I run into an Lua error while placing a sidefloat.
If I comment \externalfigure or replace the image with a different one,
the error disappears.
I can’t reproduce it in a minimal example, so I guess it depends on the
Am 13.01.24 um 19:43 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
(LMTX, latest beta with self-compiled binary on OSX-intel.)
With my book, I run into an Lua error while placing a sidefloat.
If I comment \externalfigure or replace the image with a different one,
the error disappears.
I can’t reproduce it in
The fiziko library by the same author is also very interesting:
> https://github.com/jemmybutton/fiziko
> Since it has some pseudo-3D features, maybe you can learn from it.
>
Thanks for all this info. I will look into this and perhaps come up with a
Metapost file, and then we can possibly add
Dear Bruce and Marco,
Thank you for your suggestions.
I think that it would be good enough to replace my code.
I learned new method which doesn’t use metaFun.
I’ll modify what you suggested for my purpose.
Thank you again.
Best regards,
Dalyoung
> 2024. 1. 13. 오전 7:38, Bruce Horrocks 작성:
Hi Shiv,
The author of tikz-euclide has another package, tikz-elements, which looks like
it could be used to do all of these calculations for MetaFun.
The tikz-elements package, in spite of its name, appears to contain exactly one
line of TikZ code. This line is in the very simple style file,
