Re: [NTG-context] drawarrow and transparency

2012-05-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2-5-2012 17:35, Alan BRASLAU wrote: I have a MetaPost question concerning drawarrow withtransparency (or any other compound object). Is there some clever way to achieve uniform transparency for a compound object? For example, in the minimal example below, how can one obtain a transparent arro

Re: [NTG-context] drawarrow and transparency

2012-05-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Alan, Am 03.05.2012 12:32, schrieb Alan BRASLAU: > On Wed, 2 May 2012 21:42:24 +0200 > Marco wrote: > >> On 2012-05-02 Alan BRASLAU wrote: >> >>> For example, in the minimal example below, how can one obtain >>> a transparent arrow without getting an X-ray vision of the >>> arro

Re: [NTG-context] drawarrow and transparency

2012-05-03 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On May 3, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: I believe that this is somewhat a bug with transparency under MetaFun. For I tried the following: \startMPcode picture pic ; pic := image(drawarrow origin--(1cm,0)) ; draw pic withtransparency(1,.5) ; draw pic rotated 90 withtransparency(1,.5) ; \s

Re: [NTG-context] drawarrow and transparency

2012-05-03 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wed, 2 May 2012 21:42:24 +0200 Marco wrote: > On 2012-05-02 Alan BRASLAU wrote: > > > For example, in the minimal example below, how can one obtain > > a transparent arrow without getting an X-ray vision of the > > arrowhead? > > Maybe I'm reinventing the wheel here, but you

Re: [NTG-context] drawarrow and transparency

2012-05-02 Thread Marco
On 2012-05-02 Alan BRASLAU wrote: > For example, in the minimal example below, how can one obtain > a transparent arrow without getting an X-ray vision of the > arrowhead? Maybe I'm reinventing the wheel here, but you can write a small macro that only draws the lines you want.

[NTG-context] drawarrow and transparency

2012-05-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
I have a MetaPost question concerning drawarrow withtransparency (or any other compound object). Is there some clever way to achieve uniform transparency for a compound object? For example, in the minimal example below, how can one obtain a transparent arrow without getting an X-ray vision of the