[metapost] Trying to figure out MPLib

[Taco Hoekwater]

On Aug 8, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:
>> I agree, but because straight lines are expressed as two explicit
>> curl statements ('--' is a macro expanding to '{curl1}..{curl1}'),
>> finding the right spot in solve_choices() to intercept this case
>> (as opposed to other {curl} values) is not immediately obvious to
>> me from the code.
> 
> Um, isn't it possible to like check for node->curlvalue == 1 &&
> node->next->curlvalue == 1?
> 
> BTW where are the curl, tension and direction values stored before
> everything is converted to explicit control points? Are the control
> point variables being ad-hoc overloaded for this as well?

Yes.

Best wishes,
Taco