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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: MetaFun: Confusion with `function()` and `xyscaled`
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:24:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA26FC1.6060209@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1110211652520.21641@nqv-gnoyrg>

On 21-10-2011 22:53, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> Could someone please explain to me how `xyscaled` works in this case
>> please. I though `xyscaled (αcm, ζcm)` would set the object/path to a
>> width of α cm and a height of ζ cm.
>
> IIRC, xysized does that. (I am usually confused between ..sized and
> ..scaled, but one of them scales to the given dimensions).

scaled is just multiplication so x scaled 1cm is x * 1 * cm which can be 
pretty large

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-22  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-20 23:14 Paul Menzel
2011-10-21 11:38 ` Paul Menzel
2011-10-21 15:02   ` Peter Rolf
2011-10-21 15:26     ` MetaPost: " Paul Menzel
2011-10-21 16:08       ` Peter Rolf
2011-10-23 14:12         ` Paul Menzel
2011-10-23 15:17           ` Peter Rolf
2011-10-23 21:39             ` Hans Hagen
2011-10-21 20:53 ` MetaFun: " Aditya Mahajan
2011-10-22  7:24   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-10-23 13:17 ` MetaFun manual: Incorrect label of ordinate axis on page 382, section 9.3 drawing functions (was: Confusion with `function()` and `xyscaled`) Paul Menzel

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