Re: metapost problem

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:48 AM 10/16/00 +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:

>For a long time I have noticed that certain parts
>of text are not treated by metapost as being part
>of the picture. I have attached an example, where a
>part of the letter ``y'' of the word ``pointsGalway''
>at the right of the picture falls outside the picture.
>If I decrease the width of the boxes ate the right
>the results gets even worse. BTW: The picture was
>created using plain metapost. No ConTeXt was involved.

This has to do with the fact that glyps may stick out of their bounding
boxes. 

If you use btex ... etex, you may want to add a \strut, otherwise: 

picture p ; p := nullpicture ; 
addto p also "abc" infont "somefont" ; 
setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; 
draw p ; 

Hans
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