Re: Problem with showing paths

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:52:18 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.metapost
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The problem is the way the lines in the output of "show" are broken:
> The lines are fairly short (max. 80 characters, including the
> newline) and the x- and y-coordinates of the points can be broken
> across two lines, which makes parsing unnecessarily difficult.  [...]
> 
> Is there anyway to fix this?

Maybe you can send the output to the log file instead, using the
`max_print_line=<length>` environment variable?  We use this in
LilyPond.


     Werner
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