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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: crlf in textext?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:06:42 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1112151005381.15769@nqv-gnoyrg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35D588D7-102D-4CD7-BAA0-996FF1BFEE40@xs4all.nl>

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Hans van der Meer wrote:

> Is it correct that the use of textext(label,pos) in MetApost pictures does not honor \crlf?
> I could not make a twoline text with textext("abc\crlf xyz",pos), it comes out as one line "abcxyz".
> Is it a feature or a defect?

textext("...") is a hbox. So you need to either use

textext("\vbox{... \crlf ...}")

or

textext("\noexpand\framed[align=normal]{... \crlf ...}")

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-15 14:53 Hans van der Meer
2011-12-15 15:06 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2011-12-15 15:27   ` Meer, H. van der
2011-12-15 18:37   ` Hans Hagen

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