[metapost] envelope
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Sep 16 09:06:19 CEST 2016
On 9/15/2016 8:27 PM, Daniel H. Luecking wrote:
> Nicola:
>
> The syntax is
> envelope <polygonal pen> of <path primary>
>
> For example,
> path p;
> p := envelope pensquare of (up--left);
>
> It returns the path which, when filled, produces the effect of stroking
> the pen along the path. Elliptical pens (e.g., pencircle) produce an error.
>
> Stroking an elliptical pen is simply passed on to PostScript. But polygonal
> pens (inherited from metafont) require this as a workaround.
>
> I deduced this by a little trial and error based on some descriptions in
> the web source mp.w.
Here's what happens in the result.
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\startMPpage
draw envelope pensquare of (up--left) ;
\stopMPpage
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% h S
\startMPpage
draw (up--left) withpen pensquare ;
\stopMPpage
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% 0.500000000 0.500000000 l
% h f
\startMPpage
draw fullcircle ;
\stopMPpage
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% 0.500000000 0 m
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0.353546143 c
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-0.353546143 c
% 0.447311401 -0.259780884 0.500000000 -0.132614136 0.500000000 0 c
% h S
\startMPpage
draw envelope pensquare of fullcircle ;
\stopMPpage
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% -0.500000000 1 l
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% -0.947311401 0.759780884 -1 0.632614136 -1 0.500000000 c
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% -1 -0.500000000 l
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% -0.759780884 -0.947311401 -0.632614136 -1 -0.500000000 -1 c
% -0.500000000 -1 0.500000000 -1 0.500000000 -1 c
% 0.500000000 -1 l
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% 1 -0.500000000 1 0.500000000 1 0.500000000 c
% 1 0.500000000 l
% h S
\startMPpage
draw fullcircle withpen pensquare ;
\stopMPpage
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% -0.500000000 1 l
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% -0.500000000 -1 0.500000000 -1 0.500000000 -1 c
% 0.500000000 -1 l
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% h f
\startMPpage
draw fullcircle withpen pensquare ;
\stopMPpage
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% h f
\startMPpage
draw fullcircle withpen pencircle ;
\stopMPpage
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% 0.500000000 0 m
% 0.500000000 0.132614136 0.447311401 0.259780884 0.353546143 0.353546143 c
% 0.259780884 0.447311401 0.132614136 0.500000000 0 0.500000000 c
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0.353546143 c
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% h S
\stoptext
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