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From: Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Troubles with backgrounds in bTABLE
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:27:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <232ABB34-B533-4EA4-9A8A-8648E630F9AC@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C591AAC.2030204@gmx.net>

Hello Peter,

thanks for your explanation. Hm, that also makes clear why the diagonal works without setting the bounding box. 

Willi
On 4 Aug 2010, at 09:45, Peter Rolf wrote:

> Hi Willi,
> 
> Am 04.08.2010 08:57, schrieb Willi Egger:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I need to use the background mechanism to draw a thicker line in a bTABLE...eTABLE setup together with MKII.
>> It looks like that there is a bug somewhere in this. I am unable to draw the line at the top of the cell. However it is possible to draw a diagonal through the cel. I think that the problem is related to the background mechanism in general, because the problem is also present when using the background mechanism in framed. The behavior is identical in MKII en MKIV.
>> I updated this morning to the latest version of Context, the bug is there as it was in a version ca 1 month old.
>> 
> No bug, only the bounding box. The relative position of a graphic does
> not count any longer, if the graphic leaves MP.
> For example: drawing a fullcircle/unitcircle results in the same
> graphic, although they have a different center point. Only the final
> boundingbox is counting here (equal in this case).
> In your example the boundingbox has the size (OverlayWidth,2pt) or
> (OverlayWidth+2pt,2p) if you ignore the linewidth. So you need a manual
> boundingbox setup, as in the attached example. The Topline does not
> cross the borders of the OverlayBox (donno if this is wanted, but easy
> to change).
> 
> Best wishes,  Peter
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-04  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04  6:57 Willi Egger
2010-08-04  7:32 ` Peter Münster
2010-08-04  7:38   ` Willi Egger
2010-08-04  7:45 ` Peter Rolf
2010-08-04  8:27   ` Willi Egger [this message]

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