Thanks Aditya, my metapost skills will probably not suffice to start this from scratch, but your hints made me dig around in the sources a little, and in mp-apos.mpiv I found anch_sidebars_draw which not only draws the straight marginrules but also dotted ones, to be invoked with \startmarginrule[2,alternative=1].
This confirms my suspicion that Hans has a time machine that allows him to
implement features so that they are miraculously already available when
requested.
I then tried to play around with this function a little, e.g. changing
dashed (withdots scaled (linewidth*2))
to
dashed evenly
but, to my embarrassment, it didn’t have any effect. Do I need to do something
else besides saving the modified file to
have it take effect?
Thanks,
Matthias
On May 18, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2014, Matthias Weber wrote:
>
>> iii) Dream: Instead of solid margin rules I would love to have other
>> options, like squiggly lines, dashed, dotted.
>
> I don't have time to post a complete working example, but the normal way to
> achieve such features is to textbackground and let Metapost take care of the
> drawing. See the metafun manual for examples.
>
> Also see this answer at tex.sx http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/125486/323 for
> some implementation ideas.
>
> If you just need margin rules, you can also use background which are slightly
> simpler (less powerful but easier to work with) than textbackgrounds.
>
> Aditya
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