From: Oliver Buerschaper <oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Margins around figures
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CDDF1470-CE4A-4028-821B-463FB1386922@mpq.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070907041639.GA26244@localhost>
> I am making a presentation with ConTeXt, with numerous MetaPost
> figures. Now, the only problem is that my white MetaPost figures don't
> blend well with the dark background of the screen. This isn't too good
> since the text labels in my figure's edges appear too close to the
> edge. What I'd like to know is, whether there's a way to specify some
> extra margin space around the figure, which would provide some more
> white area around the MetaPost figure. Alternately, is there an
> elegant MetaPost way of specifying figure margins?
Perhaps
setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 5mm;
at the end of your MetaPost drawing might do what you want?
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-07 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 4:16 Kumar Appaiah
2007-09-07 7:18 ` Oliver Buerschaper [this message]
2007-09-07 8:23 ` Kumar Appaiah
2007-09-07 9:27 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2007-09-07 10:31 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-09-07 17:46 ` Kumar Appaiah
2007-09-07 18:08 ` Kumar Appaiah
2007-09-08 9:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-09-08 11:57 ` Kumar Appaiah
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