Yes. The problem is syntactic: with \startscope[shift={(\p)}]

it works.

On 8/9/2023 1:00 PM, Xavier B. wrote: that's one way to look at it, kind of like (10,20) shifted (((((10,100))))) which looks somewhat weird (does {((((\p))))} actually work?) one can wonder why the coordinate is not expanded without encapsulating () which should not that hard to do 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------