[NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-04-23 Thread Mari Voipio
Hello all, any graphic experts around who can bump me past a stupid hinder on my way to understanding MPgraphics? I'm trying to create a system of describing certain type of braiding patterns (fingerloop braiding), based on what has been used in the field before me - but they did it all manually

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-04-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 23-4-2012 19:34, Mari Voipio wrote: Hello all, any graphic experts around who can bump me past a stupid hinder on my way to understanding MPgraphics? I'm trying to create a system of describing certain type of braiding patterns (fingerloop braiding), based on what has been used in the field

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-04-30 Thread Mari Voipio
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 20:34, Mari Voipio wrote: > a) I need to be able to stack four of these on top of each other and > then four mirrored ones next to them OK, I really was being stupid - I had already managed to do a "shift" inside a single 'block', somehow I just didn't see that I could do

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-01 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Mari, Am 30.04.2012 23:40, schrieb Mari Voipio: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 20:34, Mari Voipio wrote: >> a) I need to be able to stack four of these on top of each other and >> then four mirrored ones next to them > > OK, I really was being stupid - I had already managed to do a "shift" > insid

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Mari Voipio
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > beware, metapost is addictive once you get better in it, It is. :-) This one is to both you and Peter, because your snippets together helped me adjust from WYSIWYG vector graphics to MetaPost - not that I'm that far yet, but I understand a lot

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Mari Voipio
PS. I got this link from a friend who'd struggled with an event registration system, but it SO applies to my MetaPost project: http://www.howtogeek.com/102420/geeks-versus-non-geeks-when-doing-repetitive-tasks-funny-chart/ (Scary, I seem to count as "geek"now...)

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: > http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ """ ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Engineering, is not open source software, """ Hm, I'm not sure that it's correct. -- luigi _

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: >> http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ > """ > ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document > Engineering, is not open source software, > """ > Hm, I'm not sure that it's correct. Co

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: > >> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: >>> http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ >> """ >> ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document >> Engineering, is not o

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 06 May 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: > > > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: > >> http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ > > """ > > ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document > > Engineering, is not open so

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-5-2012 13:33, Pontus Lurcock wrote: On Sun 06 May 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ """ ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Enginee

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-5-2012 10:53, Mari Voipio wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: beware, metapost is addictive once you get better in it, It is. :-) This one is to both you and Peter, because your snippets together helped me adjust from WYSIWYG vector graphics to MetaPost - not that

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Martin Schröder
2012/5/6 Hans Hagen : > (btw, I always wonder if the gpl restrictions also apply to the makers too > ... i.e. if I extend context for a project should I then also make those > extensions public ... quite a hassle if that would be true.) The copyright holders are free to use any license. So we have

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-5-2012 14:53, Martin Schröder wrote: 2012/5/6 Hans Hagen: (btw, I always wonder if the gpl restrictions also apply to the makers too ... i.e. if I extend context for a project should I then also make those extensions public ... quite a hassle if that would be true.) The copyright holders

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Mari Voipio
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ > > > Best change that in: > > ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document > Engineering, is open source software and avaliable as stand alone > distribution (www.contextgarden.net) and is also

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-07 Thread Mari Voipio
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > You have seen this one, haven't you? Posted by Don Knuth: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVuggGxeBVk > > So that's your next challenge. Yes, I've seen it, had to watch the whole thing, it is so fascinating. If I ever decide to invest in suc