Hi Hans,
Thanks a lot for that! I confirm that these methods, along with the change
in mlib-fnt.lmt you suggested, work perfectly.
Cheers,
Florent
Le jeu. 20 févr. 2025 à 08:42, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> a écrit :
> On 2/19/2025 10:23 PM, Florent Michel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > When experimenting with outlinetext, I found it generally works well for
> > both text and equations but seems to fail for fractions or square roots.
> > The code below demonstrates the issue:
> > ____________________________
> > \startMPpage
> > draw outlinetext("$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$");
> > \stopMPpage
> > ____________________________
> >
> > The ‘1’ and ‘2’ seem to be at the right positions, but the fraction bar
> > and horizontal part of the radical are missing.
> > Is there a different fonction I should use for getting the outlines of
> > equations?
>
> In order to get rules you need this:
>
> \setupmathfractions[rule=yes]
> \setupmathradical [rule=yes]
>
> I suppose this is something we can hook in automatically so we need to
> discuss that in the cms.
>
> You can also do this:
>
> \disabledirectives [math.extensibles]
>
> In both cases there is a too large radical symbol so this fix is needed
> in mlib-fnt.lmt (line 399):
>
> local s = 1000
> local sx = 1000
> local sy = 1000
>
> After that it should be ok. I need to check the directive but might as
> well just leave that as 'not worth the trouble' because going into an
> assembled glyph is no fun.
>
> \starttext
>
> \startMPpage
> draw lmt_outline [
> text = "$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$"
> ] ;
> \stopMPpage
>
> \startTEXpage
> $\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$
> \stopTEXpage
>
> \stoptext
>
>
>
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