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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Instructions for m-pstric
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:39:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030811103655.0190d150@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308081658.10289.john@wexfordpress.com>

At 16:58 08/08/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Since I was mentioned in the code for this module I make bold to ask
>this question =)
>Exactly how is this module employed to enable PStricks statements to
>be used in a Context job?

see m-pstric.tex

>Alternatively, in MPFun, how might one surround the text on a page by
>a border running symmetrically around the edge, a certain distance in
>from the page edges?  I know how I would do it in PSTricks but not in
>Metapost/Metafun. A recent memoir by Norman Mailer has a broad gray
>border with a thin black border just inside it on the title page. Very
>spiffy.

\startuniqueMPgraphic{textborder}
   draw OverlayBox enlarged 3pt ;
\stopuniqueMPgraphic

\defineoverlay[textborder][\uniqueMPgraphic{textborder}]

\setupbackgrounds[text][background=textborder]

etc etc
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-11  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-08 20:58 John Culleton
2003-08-08 22:03 ` Nigel King
2003-08-11  8:51   ` Hans Hagen
2003-08-11  8:39 ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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