[metapost] subpath description in The METAFONTbook

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Fri Mar 27 09:21:19 CET 2009



Stephan Hennig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the subpath description in mpman is rather brief.  I remember an
> in-depth discussion of the behaviour of subpath for various parameter
> combination in The METAFONTbook and I want to add a reference to that
> page in mpman.  Could anybody with the 1986 edition of The METAFONTbook
> please research the exact page number?  According to Google, it could be
> around p.133, but this is probably in another edition:
> <URL:http://books.google.de/books?q=subpath(t1,t2)>

page 133, yes (the mfbook.tex is on CTAN, if you want to quote or
paraphrase it)

Best wishes,
Taco


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