Il 28/04/21 17:53, Hans Hagen ha scritto:

On 4/28/2021 5:27 PM, mf wrote:

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Hello,

I made an experiment to add alternatives to sidebars (see attachment).

I discovered the sidebar is drawn by anch_sidebars_draw in metapost/context/base/mpiv/mp-apos.mpiv.

I've redefined it locally to add alternatives.

To make fancy, zig zag bars I defined a macro, draw_pattern_bar, that draws a bar repeating a pattern which is a path connecting (0,0) and (1,0).

The macro has 3 parameters (actually it has more params, but the remainder are anch_sidebars_draw params):

- a pattern, which is a path from (0,0) to (1,0) that should have a vertical size = 1; it's a sort of waveform

- a pattern length, by which the pattern is xsized

- a pattern width, by which the pattern is ysized

Then the pattern is rotated along the bar direction (so -90 degrees) and drawn many times until it covers the bar length.

A proposal and a question:

- patternlength and patternwidth could become \setupsidebar params; alternative (=2,3,4...) could be used to specify the pattern (a sort of waveform); currently alternative=0 is a solid bar and alternative=1 is a dashed one

- in case of long patterns (a patternlength spanning more lines of text) the last replica of the pattern should be clipped not to exceed the last line of the sidebarred text (see the last example): how can that be done? how about

def draw_pattern_bar(expr a, b, pattern, patternlength, patternheight, linewidth, linecolor) =    draw image (        begingroup ;            save p, q, stp ;            pair p, q, stp ;            stp := ( ( b - a ) / arclength( a -- b ) ) * patternlength ;            path q ; q := pattern xscaled patternlength yscaled patternheight rotated (angle(stp)) ;            p := a ;            forever :                draw                    q shifted p                    withpen pencircle scaled linewidth                    withcolor linecolor ;                p := p + stp ;                exitif arclength( a -- p ) > arclength( a -- b ) ;            endfor ;        endgroup ;        clip currentpicture to            (xpart llcorner currentpicture, ypart b) --            (xpart lrcorner currentpicture, ypart b) --            (xpart urcorner currentpicture, ypart a) --            (xpart ulcorner currentpicture, ypart a) -- cycle ;    ) ; enddef ;

Thank you, Hans. To save this example, I wikified \setupsidebar, \definesidebar and \startsidebar...\stopsidebar. If you do something on alternatives, let me know. Massi

On 4/29/2021 11:08 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:

Hi Massi,

Thank you and Hans for this nice feature: is it going to be included in the built-in sidebar ?

At some point yes. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------