From: Mikael Persson <mickep@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Thanks. Two new questions: rotate and scale
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:44:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5fddde00903130644k9fa69c2qe61c6f3f934d25be@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090313T133332-408@post.gmane.org>
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Curious Learn <curiouslearn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Taco Hoekwater <taco <at> elvenkind.com> writes:
>
>
>> >> (2) Is there a command to scale the whole picture...not the components?
>>
>> Parse error. In my view, the whole picture *is* the components.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Taco
>
> Hi Taco,
>
> Sorry for the typo and for not being clear. I meant the following. I know that
> "scaled" command can be used to scale any particular component. To scale the
> whole picture does one have to scale each and every component individually, or
> is there one command that scales every component.
>
> One way is perhaps to define a variable, say u=1cm and express all measurements
> in terms of "u". Then by changing just "u" one can scale the whole picture (and
> all the components) up or down. Is there another way? For example, in TikZ there
> is a command "scale" which scales the entire picture if put as an option to
> \begin{tikzpicture}. I was wondering if something like that is available in
> Metapost too.
>
Hi,
I use the method of
u=1mm;
in the beginning and then use u as the "unit".
I think "currentpicture" is what you are after otherwise, but not sure.
Mikael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-13 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-12 0:53 Command "show" in Metapost/Metafun Curious Learn
2009-03-12 4:44 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-12 8:40 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-12 15:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-12 23:11 ` Thanks. Two new questions: rotate and scale Curious Learn
2009-03-13 11:23 ` Albrecht Kauffmann
2009-03-13 11:59 ` Curious Learn
2009-03-13 12:09 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-03-13 13:39 ` Curious Learn
2009-03-13 13:44 ` Mikael Persson [this message]
2009-03-13 13:56 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-03-13 14:43 ` Curious Learn
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