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Hello all. I have adapted a bit of MP code from Aditya from a mailing list message dated 2006-05-19 (http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060519.214124.9174ac0e.en.html) to ensure that when a page break occurs in a textbackground there is a forced vertical space inside the box at the top of the new page. This code works fine for me (although interestingly not in the garden): \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:myexample} path p; for i = 1 upto nofmultipars : p := multipars[1] topenlarged 8pt bottomenlarged 8pt; fill p withcolor 0.9white ; draw p withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled \MPvar{linewidth}; endfor; \stopuseMPgraphic \definetextbackground[ExampleBackground] [mp=mpos:par:myexample,location=paragraph,leftoffset=1em,rightoffset=1em,rulethickness=1pt] \starttext \input knuth \endgraf \starttextbackground[ExampleBackground] \dorecurse{13}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stoptextbackground \input knuth \endgraf \stoptext But now I need to make this box have rounded corners, and I am very confused when reading core-pgr.tex because that is a level of MP code I just don't understand. Would somebody please be able to tell me what to change in the above to make the corners of the box rounded (with a radius of 2mm)? Thank you very much! Duncan
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Duncan Hothersall wrote:
Hello all.
I have adapted a bit of MP code from Aditya from a mailing list message dated 2006-05-19 (http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060519.214124.9174ac0e.en.html) to ensure that when a page break occurs in a textbackground there is a forced vertical space inside the box at the top of the new page.
This code works fine for me (although interestingly not in the garden):
\setupcolors[state=start]
\startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:myexample} path p; for i = 1 upto nofmultipars : p := multipars[1] topenlarged 8pt bottomenlarged 8pt;
Change this to p := multipars[1] topenlarged 8pt bottomenlarged 8pt cornered 2mm ;
fill p withcolor 0.9white ; draw p withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled \MPvar{linewidth}; endfor; \stopuseMPgraphic
\definetextbackground[ExampleBackground] [mp=mpos:par:myexample,location=paragraph,leftoffset=1em,rightoffset=1em,rulethickness=1pt]
\starttext \input knuth \endgraf \starttextbackground[ExampleBackground] \dorecurse{13}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stoptextbackground \input knuth \endgraf \stoptext
But now I need to make this box have rounded corners, and I am very confused when reading core-pgr.tex because that is a level of MP code I just don't understand.
Look at the metafun manual. The path p is basically a box (whose dimentions are equal to the text on the page, but for metapost this is immaterial) and you wnat to make it have round corners. So you the appropriate metafun transformation (cornered in this case). Aditya
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Trying to use the metapost macros mpgraph under the context minimals MKIV gives font and other errors, whereas my test files process correctly under MKII (texlive). Has anyone tried mpgraph with the minimals? Alan mplib : loading format: metafun.mp, name: /home/local/context-beta/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/ca2c461281d32a4032d9fe2a0384924b/formats/cont-en-metafun.mem define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** define font | font with name sa is not found define font | unknown font sa, loading aborted define font | unable to define sa as \**thedefinedfont** mplib | mp terminal: (/home/local/context-beta/tex/texmf/metapost/base/graph.mp ! Redundant equation. <to be read again> ; l.143 Gmargin.low=-.07; % bbox fraction for default ra... ! Redundant equation. <to be read again> ; l.144 Gmargin.high=1.07; % bbox fraction for default ra... ) mplib | mp error: unknown, no error, terminal or log messages mplib | mp terminal: [1] mplib | mp error: unknown, no error, terminal or log messages
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Alan BRASLAU wrote:
Trying to use the metapost macros mpgraph under the context minimals MKIV gives font and other errors,
whereas my test files process correctly under MKII (texlive).
Has anyone tried mpgraph with the minimals?
no, as i never use it; do you have a test file? Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Am 15.01.2009 um 18:26 schrieb Duncan Hothersall:
Hello all.
I have adapted a bit of MP code from Aditya from a mailing list message dated 2006-05-19 (http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060519.214124.9174ac0e.en.html ) to ensure that when a page break occurs in a textbackground there is a forced vertical space inside the box at the top of the new page.
This code works fine for me (although interestingly not in the garden):
\setupcolors[state=start]
\startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:myexample} path p; for i = 1 upto nofmultipars : p := multipars[1] topenlarged 8pt bottomenlarged 8pt;
p := multipars[1] topenlarged 8pt bottomenlarged 8pt smoothed 2mm ;
fill p withcolor 0.9white ; draw p withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled \MPvar{linewidth}; endfor; \stopuseMPgraphic
\definetextbackground[ExampleBackground]
[mp = mpos:par:myexample ,location=paragraph,leftoffset=1em,rightoffset=1em,rulethickness=1pt]
\starttext \input knuth \endgraf \starttextbackground[ExampleBackground] \dorecurse{13}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stoptextbackground \input knuth \endgraf \stoptext
But now I need to make this box have rounded corners, and I am very confused when reading core-pgr.tex because that is a level of MP code I just don't understand.
Would somebody please be able to tell me what to change in the above to make the corners of the box rounded (with a radius of 2mm)?
The smoothed function is explained in the MetaFun manual. Wolfgang
participants (5)
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Aditya Mahajan
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Alan BRASLAU
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Duncan Hothersall
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Hans Hagen
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Wolfgang Schuster