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From: Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Metapost: I only need a little bit padding
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 16:34:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5340146B.707@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5340099A.9040102@gmx.de>

Hi Jan,

Am 05.04.2014 15:48, schrieb Jan Heinen:
> \startuseMPgraphic{rotatedHeadline}
> % Text "Headline" in a box which is rotated
> draw btex {\strut\tfd Headline} etex;

setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 2mm;

The following code is based on the boundingbox, so just make it bigger
beforehand.

> 
> % rectangle with rounded corners
> path p;
> p := llcorner currentpicture+(0mm,3mm){down}..{right}llcorner
> currentpicture+(3mm,0mm)--
> lrcorner currentpicture+(-3mm,0mm){right}..{up}lrcorner
> currentpicture+(0mm,3mm)--
> urcorner currentpicture+(0mm,-3mm){up}..{left}urcorner
> currentpicture+(-3mm,0mm)--
> ulcorner currentpicture+(3mm,0mm){left}..{down}ulcorner
> currentpicture+(0mm,-3mm)--cycle;
> pickup pencircle scaled 0.5pt;
> clip currentpicture to p;
> draw p;
> currentpicture := currentpicture rotated 90;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> 
> 
> \starttext
> \useMPgraphic{rotatedHeadline}
> \stoptext

Best wishes,  Peter
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      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-05 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-05 13:48 Jan Heinen
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