From: Vincent Hennebert via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Vincent Hennebert <vhennebert@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to add margin around standalone MetaPost?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 18:22:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7e1e221d7a5fa5f328d336b0edc781a601d369d.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11981844.O9o76ZdvQC@sreeramtplt>
On Sat, 2022-05-21 at 07:39 +0530, śrīrāma wrote:
> On 5/20/22 10:26 PM Vincent Hennebert via ntg-context wrote:
> > Take the following MetaPost file:
> >
> > beginfig(0)
> > ahlength := 20;
> > linejoin := mitered;
> > drawarrow origin--(40,0) withpen pencircle scaled 5;
> > endfig;
> >
> > Render it into PDF with ConTeXt. Witness the cut out ends of the
> > arrow.
> > How to fix that?
> >
> > Being able to add some margin would be a solution, which may be
> > desirable anyway in some cases. Is that possible?
>
> Enlarge the bounds of your picture –
>
> beginfig(0);
> ahlength := 20;
> linejoin := mitered;
> drawarrow origin--(40,0) withpen pencircle scaled 5;
>
> setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged
> 5mm;
> endfig;
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
(I did find out about \startMPpage[offset=3pt], but that requires me to
include my MetaPost file into an additional, somewhat superfluous TeX
file. And for better editor support I prefer to edit the MetaPost in a
.mp file, rather than embedded in a .tex.)
Vincent
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-20 16:56 Vincent Hennebert via ntg-context
2022-05-20 17:07 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2022-05-20 18:27 ` Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context
2022-05-21 2:09 ` śrīrāma via ntg-context
2022-05-24 16:22 ` Vincent Hennebert via ntg-context [this message]
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