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From: windley@cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu (Phil Windley/20000000)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MF rotatedabout
Message-ID: <WINDLEY.90Dec7145728@cheetah.cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 22:57:28 GMT
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Organization: University of Idaho, Computer Science Dept.
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I'm new to Metafont and I'm trying to make a character that is based on a
pentagon.  I want to be abla to make a currentpicture representing one of
the 5 regular parts and then say something like:

currentpicture := currentpicture transformed t1;

where 

t1 = rotatedabout ((.5w,.5h),72);

but I get an error message that says:

! That transformation is too hard.
<to be read again> 


Why is it too hard.  It only seems to work if I give it even 90 degree
rotations.  

--phil--

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