[NTG-context] MetaFun manual: Incorrect label of ordinate axis on page 382, section 9.3 drawing functions (was: Confusion with `function()` and `xyscaled`)

2011-10-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear MetaFun folks, Am Freitag, den 21.10.2011, 01:14 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: looking at the example for grid and functions in the MetaFun manual [1] section 9.3 drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled .25pt withcolor .5white) ; draw hlingrid(0, 20, .2, 20cm, 10cm) ;

Re: [NTG-context] xml and lua again

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Thomas, Am 22.10.2011 18:46, schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: Hi all, again, I'm playing a bit with processing my xml in lua. I want a simple interface for processing tables (I don't need all the power and complexity of cals tables and want to learn something in the process). And I thought

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost: Confusion with `function()` and `xyscaled`

2011-10-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Freitag, den 21.10.2011, 18:08 +0200 schrieb Peter Rolf: Am 21.10.2011 17:26, schrieb Paul Menzel: Am Freitag, den 21.10.2011, 17:02 +0200 schrieb Peter Rolf: I agree, this is confusing on the first sight. But scaling is not meant as 'scaling to' a dimension. In fact is is just a

Re: [NTG-context] xml and lua again

2011-10-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Peter, thanks for your reply, and I'll keep the bit about goat milk in mind :-). frame= .. tostring(framestate) It has the advantage of making the example compile. It has the drawback of not doing anything :-) seems to work. Anyhow, if you are planning to do some more complex stuff,

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost: Confusion with `function()` and `xyscaled`

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 23.10.2011 16:12, schrieb Paul Menzel: Am Freitag, den 21.10.2011, 18:08 +0200 schrieb Peter Rolf: Am 21.10.2011 17:26, schrieb Paul Menzel: Am Freitag, den 21.10.2011, 17:02 +0200 schrieb Peter Rolf: I agree, this is confusing on the first sight. But scaling is not meant as 'scaling

Re: [NTG-context] xml and lua again

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 23.10.2011 16:37, schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: Hi Peter, thanks for your reply, and I'll keep the bit about goat milk in mind :-). frame= .. tostring(framestate) It has the advantage of making the example compile. It has the drawback of not doing anything :-) (sadly) true :-) I

Re: [NTG-context] xml and lua again

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 22.10.2011 18:46, schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: Hi all, again, I'm playing a bit with processing my xml in lua. I want a simple interface for processing tables (I don't need all the power and complexity of cals tables and want to learn something in the process). And I thought that

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost: Confusion with `function()` and `xyscaled`

2011-10-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 23-10-2011 17:17, Peter Rolf wrote: If I want to test the bounding box of a graphic, I normally use a small debugging macro (last code line of nearly all of my graphics). It simply draws a small red frame at the bounding box borders. You can use the 'Measuring Tool' in Acrobat (also Reader?)