Re: [NTG-context] Metapost: point along path and metaobj

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

Hi,

Something goes wrong while using metaobj and point something along somepath. I do not know if point ... along... is a mp core command or something introduced by metafun. Is this metafun's fault, metaobj's fault or simply a metapost issue (and thus I should ask on the

It is Metaobj's fault, it redefines (and therefore blocks access to) the primitive command arctime. So I guess you should complain to Denis Roegel (at the very least he should save the primitive arctime under a different name). A workaround (I think) is this: input metaobj; primarydef pct along pat = arctime (pct,pat) of pat enddef ; Taco