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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