From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36397 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Buerschaper Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Margins around figures Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20070907041639.GA26244@localhost> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189149554 17150 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 07:19:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:19:14 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Sep 07 09:19:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITY7T-0004Kx-Bi for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:19:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0555F2012E; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:19:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13575-02-5; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDCE20116; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4AA2011D for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13575-02-4 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from post.rzg.mpg.de (post.rzg.mpg.de [130.183.7.21]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1982120116 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [172.20.3.3] (gateway.maximilianeum.mhn.de [129.187.19.245]) by post.rzg.mpg.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA1794154 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:31 +0200 X-Envelope-To: X-Copfilter: Client is part of local network X-Copfilter: Sender is in whitelist, skipped SpamAssassin In-Reply-To: <20070907041639.GA26244@localhost> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Copfilter-Originating-IP: 172.20.3.3 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:36397 Archived-At: > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________