From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: MetaPost graphics with TRT direction
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:07:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090327120702.GB10763@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CC0254.8050401@wxs.nl>
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:31:48PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> MPost graphics inside TRT direction are placed incorrectly overlapping
>> the text on the right, similar to what we had with \pdfximage (see the
>> attached PDF).
>>
>> This seems to be unrelated to images issue since MPost graphics are
>> inserted as \pdfliteral. I'm not sure if this an engine or macro issue,
>> but I'm guessing the later.
>>
>> Changing the \startMPLIBtoPDF so that the \hbox where the graphics is
>> placed is fixed to TLT direction fixes this, but I'm not sure if it is
>> safe to do so.
>
> for the moment i did
>
> \def\startMPLIBtoPDF#1#2#3#4% watch the transparency reset
> {\naturalhbox\bgroup
>
> (as \naturalhbox is the official way)
>
> this keeps the internal direction (in textext) the same as the outer one
I didn't know about it, thanks for the tip and the fix.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 15:28 Khaled Hosny
2009-03-26 22:31 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-27 12:07 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2009-04-01 14:41 ` MetaPost graph mkiv error Alan BRASLAU
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