Firstly, Hans, the metafun manual is *wonderful* - thank you for spending so much time creating it. Page 44 of Preliminary Version September 12, 2000: A bounding box is defined by its lower left and lower right corners. If you open the POSTSCRIPT file produced by METAPOST, you may find lines like: isn't it the lower left and *upper* right? Page 98: You can now put this garphic in the page background by saying: graphic I guess AGL -- If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.