On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi, I’m trying to understand MetaPost better.
>
> I’d like to draw a fat line that’s cut at its end points.
You mean like linecap = butt?
\startMPpage[offset=5mm]
path p;
p := origin -- (7cm,0);
interim linecap := butt;
draw p withpen pencircle scaled 5mm;
p := p shifted (0,2cm);
interim linecap := rounded;
draw p withpen pencircle scaled 5mm;
p := p shifted (0,2cm);
interim linecap := squared;
draw p withpen pencircle scaled 5mm;
\stopMPpage
> I learned, “cutdraw” should do the trick, but I get a parallelogram
> instead of a rectangle.
Seems to be something weird with pensquare:
\startMPpage[offset=5mm]
path p;
p := origin -- (7cm,0);
% interim linecap := butt;
cutdraw p withpen pensquare scaled 5mm;
p := p shifted (0,2cm);
interim linecap := rounded;
draw p withpen pensquare scaled 5mm;
p := p shifted (0,2cm);
interim linecap := squared;
draw p withpen pensquare scaled 5mm;
\stopMPpage
Aditya
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