From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3005 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: metapost problem Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:23:37 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001016122337.01349100@pop.wxs.nl> References: <20001016104811.C16063@cs.ucc.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393770 13482 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:22:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mailing List Original-To: Marc van Dongen In-Reply-To: <20001016104811.C16063@cs.ucc.ie> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3005 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3005 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------