From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36411 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kumar Appaiah Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Margins around figures Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:38:39 +0530 Message-ID: <20070907180839.GA9749@localhost> References: <20070907041639.GA26244@localhost> <20070907082341.GB6992@localhost> <5A9A2FF6-9210-4EB6-B4CE-57DF59030A3C@mpq.mpg.de> <115224fb0709070331t4ea4781fq7c84e382cd6e3a8f@mail.gmail.com> <20070907174650.GA1097@localhost> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189188301 18722 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 18:05:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:05:01 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Sep 07 20:05:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITiCJ-0003o9-NW for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:04:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621CE200EA; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:04:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18787-01; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:04:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724A7200BC; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:01:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C206200BC for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:01:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17234-05-5 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:01:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hsmtp.iitm.ac.in (hsmtp.iitm.ac.in [203.199.213.31]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44C02006A for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:01:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by hsmtp.iitm.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6151E0003 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:31:05 +0530 (IST) Original-Received: from hsmtp.iitm.ac.in ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hsmtp.iitm.ac.in [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20395-01 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:31:04 +0530 (IST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [10.94.2.249]) by hsmtp.iitm.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1203F1E0002 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:31:04 +0530 (IST) Original-Received: from kumar by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ITiFz-0002cL-1U for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:38:39 +0530 Mail-Followup-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070907174650.GA1097@localhost> X-OS: Linux debian 2.6.22.1 i686 X-Operating-System: Linux debian 2.6.22.1 i686 X-Editor: GNU Emacs 22.1.1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at iitm.ac.in X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:36411 Archived-At: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:16:50PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > But, is there still an elegant way to have more margin in MetaPost > images? OK, a cheap and dirty workaround: define a blank label at a location outside the bounds of your actual picture, and MetaPost does the needful. Inelegant, but works for now. My next "free-time-assignment" is to learn MetaFun, since I've read enough to know that by not knowing it, I'm missing something significant. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________