From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Margins around figures
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:31:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0709070331t4ea4781fq7c84e382cd6e3a8f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A9A2FF6-9210-4EB6-B4CE-57DF59030A3C@mpq.mpg.de>
2007/9/7, Oliver Buerschaper <oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de>:
> > mpost seminar.mp
> > This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> > (seminar.mp (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/TEX.mp)
> > (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/boxes.mp)
> >>> boundingbox.currentpicture.enlarged1cm
> > ! Improper `clip'.
> > <to be read again>
> > ;
> > l.26 ...o boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 1cm;
> >
> > ?
>
> Oh, seems like I forgot that you wanted to run MetaPost externally.
> The command "enlarged" isn't contained in standard MetaPost but only
> in the extension MetaFun (i.e. MetaPost plus quite a number of
> predefined MetaPost macros) that comes with ConTeXt. Therefore the
> error is thrown ...
>
> Why not try this (in ConTeXt):
>
> ---
>
> \starttext
>
> \startuseMPgraphic{yourPicture}
> % put your MetaPost code here (without beginfig(); and endfig;)
> setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 1cm;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> \useMPgraphic{yourPicture}
>
> \stoptext
He can set the offset in ConTeXt and not in MetaPost, e.g.
\offset[leftoffset=...]{\externalfigure[fugurename]}
The \offset command is described in the details manual, he can also
look at the definition in core-box.
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-07 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 4:16 Kumar Appaiah
2007-09-07 7:18 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2007-09-07 8:23 ` Kumar Appaiah
2007-09-07 9:27 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2007-09-07 10:31 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2007-09-07 17:46 ` Kumar Appaiah
2007-09-07 18:08 ` Kumar Appaiah
2007-09-08 9:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-09-08 11:57 ` Kumar Appaiah
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