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\environment luametafun-style

\startcomponent luametafun-lines

\startchapter[title={Lines}]

We assume that when you arrived here you already know how to deal with drawing
lines including the way they get connected. When you draw a line some properties
are controlled by variables which forces you to save existing values when you
temporarily adapts them.

\startbuffer
\startMPcode
draw (0, 0) -- (20, 0)                                withcolor "darkyellow" ;
draw (0,-1) -- (20,-1)           withlinecap  butt    withcolor "darkred" ;
draw (0,-2) -- (20,-2)           withlinecap  squared withcolor "darkgreen" ;
draw (0,-3) -- (20,-3) -- (0,-4) withlinejoin squared withcolor "darkblue" ;
\stopMPcode
\stopbuffer

\typebuffer[option=TEX]

These \type {with} features are a \LUAMETATEX\ extension:

\startlinecorrection \scale[width=1tw]{\getbuffer} \stoplinecorrection

\stopchapter

\stopcomponent