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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: MetaPost, specifiy max width of a text?
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:42:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55092C81.4040408@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+bCVst5fhn-gW09kLh0LtVn_OqgF892ZbrskwRONuTZDC1nVw@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/18/2015 8:25 AM, Norbert Melzer wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Is there a way to specify the with of a text so that the text gets
> wrapped? Something simalar to the following TikZ-Example (wrapped in
> ConTeXt):
>
> ```tex
> \usemodule[tikz]
> \starttext
>    \starttikzpicture
>      \draw (0, 0) node[text width=2.5cm,align=center] {Start new Game};
>    \stoptikzpicture
>
>    \startMPcode
>      draw "Start new Game" infont defaultfont scaled defaultscale;
>    \stopMPcode
> \stoptext

\startMPpage
     draw textext("\framed[width=6cm,align={normal,tolerant}]{\input 
tufte\relax}") ;
\stopMPpage



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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-18  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-18  7:25 Norbert Melzer
2015-03-18  7:42 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-03-18  7:48 ` Alan BRASLAU

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