From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/72500 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Arrows and boxes in metapost. Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:35 +0100 Message-ID: <4EC4C4C3.2060406@wxs.nl> References: <00cb01cca303$f5c639e0$e152ada0$@gmx.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321518301 25913 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2011 08:25:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:25:01 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 17 09:24:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RQxHD-0005Rp-CU for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1B4CB112; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:55 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id eBr7zVAT8OHR; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7594FCB11D; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC70CB11D for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:42 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9axnQUjQ4gAx for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (filter3-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E60FCB112 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id pAH8Od4i009836 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:39 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 5493-1713362 for multiple; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <00cb01cca303$f5c639e0$e152ada0$@gmx.de> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0dFW8oDSC - c5173d9978b7 - 20111117 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:72500 Archived-At: On 14-11-2011 20:31, Christian wrote: > Hello, > > I need a simple graphic that shows some boxes (frames) with text in it and has some arrows pointing to and from these boxes. (examples 267 and 268 on this page [1]) > I was hoping to do this in MetaPost. > > Earlier this year this question went un-answered on this list: > "How to use boxit MetaPost macros with ConTeXt minimals?" > > So, is there a solution or do I have to use > label.rt(btex \framed[width=3cm,align=middle]{Text} etex, (1u,1.5u)); draw thetextext.rt("\framed[width=3cm,align=middle]{Text}",(1u,1.5u)) I never used the boxit macros but if they are normal mp they should just work; otherwise post a mininimal example (more change of an answer). 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