Re: one answered

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:02 PM 9/5/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Thanks! The circle is perfect now.
>
>There was still a chip off the line thickness on the right
>and on the top, but when I chenged the pointsize of the
>encircled character from 24pt to 20 pt, this was solved so
>apparantly the size of the character can interfere with the
>circle sometimes.
>
>Now, I have one next question... since the character, a
>capital P, is visually off center (namely a little too far
>up and a little too far left) i would like to know how to
>mup the P a few points to the right and to the bottom of the
>perfect circle...
>
>Any clues?

first of all, for inline usage, you should use \inframed (\inlijnd)

Placing the circle off center is a bit tricky:

add the lines:

path b ; b := boundingbox currentpicture ;
currentpicture := currentpicture shifted (-3pt,-3pt) ;
setbounds currentpicture to b ;

to the end of the graphic.

Hans
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