Re: [NTG-context] Metafun: how to draw a straight line past the end points

Hi Fabrice, Thanks a lot ! Indeed that does the job, which shows how wonderful Metafun is ! Best regards: Otared

On 9 Dec 2020, at 17:19, Fabrice L wrote:

Hi,

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Le 9 déc. 2020 à 10:57, Otared Kavian a écrit :

Hi,

I have a silly question: given two points in the plane z1 = (1cm,3cm) ; z2 = (5cm, 9cm) ; the command draw z1 -- z2 withpen pencircle scaled .5pt ; draws the line segment joining z1 and z2. How could I draw the line segment which goes a little further (say 1cm) than both the end points of this segment (that is in this example, a point before z1 and a point after z2 on the straight line) . Indeed it is possible to write the equation of the line and then compute by hand the coordinates of the new end points, but I think there is a simpler way in Metafun to do this.

The shortened operation is the solution ! See MetaFun manual section 1.18

\starttext \startMPpage z1 = (1cm,3cm) ; z2 = (5cm, 9cm) ; draw (z1--z2) shortened -1cm withcolor blue ; draw (z1--z2) withcolor red ;

\stopMPpage \stoptext

Fabrice.

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Thanks for any help: Otared

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