Re: Strange StartPage in Metapost

[Uwe Koloska <uwe.koloska@mailbox.tu-dresden.de>]

Am Montag, 17. September 2001 13:41 hast du geschrieben:
> At 11:27 AM 9/17/2001 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> > > i lost the graphic, what was the def?
> >
> >%output=pdf
> >
> >\startreusableMPgraphic{DemoFrame}
> >StartPage ;
> >pickup pencircle scaled 2pt ;
> >Field[Text][Text] := Field[Text][Text] enlarged .5cm ;
> >draw (llcorner Field[Text][Text] -- ulcorner Field[Text][Text]);
> >StopPage ;
> >\stopreusableMPgraphic
> >
> >\defineoverlay[DemoFrame][\reuseMPgraphic{DemoFrame}]

The original posting has a typo in this line that results in the use of 
"DemoFrame" instead of defining an overlay:
  \defineoverlay[DemoFrame]{\reuseMPgraphic{DemoFrame}}

And with this (wrong) line, the graphic doesn't has the height of the text 
field -- thus my question about the size.  But now I know that the line
  Field[Text][Text] := Field[Text][Text] enlarged .5cm ;
is wrong and doesn't do what I (and Patrick I suppose) thought it does ...

> >\setupbackgrounds[page][background=DemoFrame]
> >
> >\starttext
> >\dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par}
> >\stoptext
>
> so, what it shows is a vertical line, which is what i expect

Uwe

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