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On 5/31/2021 6:50 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2021, Hans Hagen wrote:
Hi,
I uploaded a new lmtx version. This time a new mechanism.
This is very interesting...I haven't played around with it, but is it the case that \markanchor does not do alignment and so can completely replace the old \hpos{...} class of macros?
This also gives many interesting possibilities for math .... drawing "boxes" in matrices (e.g., https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/333011/draw-a-box-around-matrix-elem...) or even the nath style `\wall` macro (see pg 11 of https://texdoc.org/serve/nathguide.pdf/0) ... Of course, I mean this in terms of the visual effect and not the interface. Like this ... I'll think about taking some size into account (a bit like hpos does).
\starttext \startuseMPgraphic{whatever-1} fill OverlayBox withcolor "lightgray" ; drawdot anchorxy("one", 0, 1) withpen pencircle scaled 1mm withcolor "red" ; drawdot anchorxy("one", 0, 2) withpen pencircle scaled 1mm withcolor "red" ; drawdot anchorxy("two", 0, 1) withpen pencircle scaled 1mm withcolor "red" ; drawdot anchorxy("two", 0, 2) withpen pencircle scaled 1mm withcolor "red" ; drawdot anchorxy("three", 0, 1) withpen pencircle scaled 1mm withcolor "red" ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{whatever-2} pair a ; a := anchorxy("one", 0, 1) ; pair b ; b := anchorxy("one", 0, 2) ; drawarrow anchorxy("one", 0, 1) { right } .. anchorxy("one", 0, 2) withcolor "blue" withtransparency (1,.75) ; drawarrow anchorxy("two", 0, 1) { down } .. anchorxy("two", 0, 2) withcolor "blue" withtransparency (1,.75) ; drawarrow anchorxy("two", 0, 1) { dir 30 } .. anchorxy("three", 0, 1) withcolor "blue" withtransparency (1,.75) ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[whatever-1][\useMPgraphic{whatever-1}] \defineoverlay[whatever-2][\useMPgraphic{whatever-2}] \framed [synchronize=yes, align=normal, offset=10pt, frame=off, background={whatever-1,foreground,whatever-2}] {\startmathmatrix \NC \markanchor{two}{0}{1}a \NC b \NC c\NR \NC a \NC b \NC c\NR \NC a \NC \markanchor{one}{0}{1}b \NC c\NR \NC \markanchor{one}{0}{2}a \NC b \NC \markanchor{two}{0}{2}c\NR \NC a \NC \markanchor{three}{0}{1}b \NC c\NR \stopmathmatrix} \startuseMPgraphic{whatever-3} pair a ; a := anchorxy("a", 0, 1) ; pair b ; b := anchorxy("a", 0, 2) ; draw boundingbox (a--b) leftenlarged .25EmWidth rightenlarged EmWidth topenlarged StrutHeight bottomenlarged .5StrutDepth withcolor "blue" withtransparency (1,.75) ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[whatever-3][\useMPgraphic{whatever-3}] \framed [synchronize=yes, align=normal, offset=10pt, frame=off, background=whatever-3] {\startmathmatrix \NC a \NC a \NC b \NC c\NR \NC a \NC a \NC b \NC c\NR \NC a \NC \markanchor{a}{0}{1}a \NC b \NC c\NR \NC a \NC a \NC \markanchor{a}{0}{2}b \NC c\NR \NC a \NC a \NC b \NC c\NR \NC a \NC a \NC b \NC c\NR \stopmathmatrix} \stoptext The \markanchor{a}{0}{1 can be wrapped in a simpler one, or we can have something \markedanchor{a}{2}{b} but that need a little thinking because we don't want to mess too much with math spacing. Actually we can consider (in this case) \MC[a,2] or so although these are probabbly not features used that often. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------