Re: [NTG-context] question about followtext in MP

22 May 2018


      On 5/22/2018 9:05 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
...
Dear list,
I have the following sample:
\starttext
     \startMPcode
        path p ; p := reverse halfcircle scaled 5cm;
        path q ; q := reverse halfcircle rotatedaround (origin, 180)
            scaled 5cm ;
        draw p;
        draw q;
        draw followtext(p, "·Just follow the tokens") ;
        draw followtext(q, "Just follow the tokens·") ;
        draw followtext(reverse q, "Just follow the tokens·") ;
       \stopMPcode
     \stoptext
Is there any way to followtext in q without changing text direction?
I need to write the text counter-clockwise, but on outside of the path.
Reverse changes both text direction and side of the text (related to the
path) and I don’t want to change text direction.
it will probably always look bad
\startMPcode
        path p ; p := reverse halfcircle scaled (5cm + 0.5LineHeight);
        path q ; q := reverse halfcircle rotatedaround (origin, 180)
            scaled (5cm +1.3LineHeight);
        draw fullcircle scaled 5cm;;
        draw followtext(p, "\strut just follow the tokens\enspace") ;
        draw followtext(reverse q, "\strut just follow the 
tokens\enspace") ;
       \stopMPcode


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