Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!chameleon.cis.ohio-state.edu!wilcox From: wilcox@chameleon.cis.ohio-state.edu (Patricia P Wilcox) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Amateur MF user needs help, please Summary: A quibble. Keywords: metafont Message-ID: <81322@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 12 Jun 90 13:44:25 GMT References: <7440@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Patricia P Wilcox Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 17 In article <7440@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu writes: >The end result should look like > >piece0 = z1--z2--z3--z4 > & flex(z4,(161,11.5),z5) > & z5--z6--z7--z8--z1 > & cycle; This way would be a little cleaner, since "cycle" implicitly duplicates the initial point of the path: piece0 = z1--z2--z3--z4 & flex(z4,(161,11.5),z5) & z5--z6--z7--z8--cycle; --Pat Wilcox (wilcox@cis.ohio-state.edu)