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From: "śrīrāma via ntg-context" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: śrīrāma <citturs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to add margin around standalone MetaPost?
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 07:39:23 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11981844.O9o76ZdvQC@sreeramtplt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e39efc319e123d6dd5eb23895659ec1dffb1c30d.camel@gmail.com>

On 5/20/22 10:26 PM Vincent Hennebert via ntg-context wrote:
> Take the following MetaPost file:
> 
> beginfig(0)
>   ahlength := 20;
>   linejoin := mitered;
>   drawarrow origin--(40,0) withpen pencircle scaled 5;
> endfig;
> 
> Render it into PDF with ConTeXt. Witness the cut out ends of the arrow.
> How to fix that?
> 
> Being able to add some margin would be a solution, which may be
> desirable anyway in some cases. Is that possible?

Enlarge the bounds of your picture – 

  beginfig(0);
    ahlength := 20;
    linejoin := mitered;
    drawarrow origin--(40,0) withpen pencircle scaled 5;

    setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 5mm;
  endfig;

  Sreeram


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-21  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-20 16:56 Vincent Hennebert via ntg-context
2022-05-20 17:07 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2022-05-20 18:27   ` Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context
2022-05-21  2:09 ` śrīrāma via ntg-context [this message]
2022-05-24 16:22   ` Vincent Hennebert via ntg-context

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