<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Well, since line "rope" doesn't seem to work, I ended up using the user rope line from the sample metapost code<br><a href="http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/metapost#colour_dependant_visualization_of_symbols">http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/metapost#colour_dependant_visualization_of_symbols</a><br>It is Christian Jackson's code with slight modification of the pattern.<br><br> code metapost<br> def l_u_rope (expr P) =<br> T:=identity;<br> pickup pensquare scaled (0.8*u/10);<br> if known colour_rope:<br> thdraw P withcolor colour_rope;<br> else:<br> thdraw P withcolor 0.1black+0.7white;<br> fi;<br> pickup PenD;<br> thdraw P dashed dashpattern(on 1bp off 3bp on 1bp off 1bp);<br> enddef;<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> endcode<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Vladimir<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Владимир Георгиев <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vld.georgiev@gmail.com" target="_blank">vld.georgiev@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I was trying to add a line:rope to a map, but without any success.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In the <a href="http://data.mp" target="_blank">data.mp</a> file I see there is a definition of the "l_rope" line, which is equal to the "l_rope_SKBB", but the rope line I drew didn't appear with either the UIS or the SKBB symbol-set.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I also tried including some metapost code in the layout to define the line, but again without result. The metapost worked for other line types like ropeladder, but not for rope.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">A workaround is to define a custom symbol "u:rope", but I wonder why the built-in one doesn't work.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Any ideas?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Vladimir<br></div></div>
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