From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Howto metapost textext set or change basepoint (origin) baseline of text
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:28:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e86ffaca-f90b-c0d1-47dd-61676805d7b7@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d70419c4822f745c8df9c7fd884c9e1d72a8facb.camel@out-world.com>
On 2/20/2020 10:15 AM, Christoph Hintermüller wrote:
> Hi
> I have the following problem. I convert a eps file using pstoedit into
> meta post file. When running this file through mptopdf the resulting
> pdf image is as expected. When i include, using the input command, the
> file within a startMPcode endMPcode or startMPpage stopMPpage after
> replacing simple draw <string>... by draw textext(<string) ... and
> compile the tex file with context than texts inside the graphic are
> schilfted bottom left.
>
> To mee it seems as textext uses a different basepoint/baseline of the
> text, than pstoedit assumed. Maybe in additon effects related to
> differences in fonts may be additional reason.
>
> My questions are
> What keywords do i have to enter in google or the context garden wiki
> search box to obtain examples and questions dealing with similar
> aspects
>
> How do i explicitly set the position of the text origin point within
> the textbox/lable box used by textext. eg. assume origin point bottom
> left, left on baseline, center in the middle etc.
>
>
> What else might i bee missing or having a wrong idea how things are
> done by netapost/metafun/context in this context?
You can append a palcement suffix, like:
textext.dflt
you can try:
lft rt bot top ulft urt llft lrt d dflt drt origin raw
(if instead of an eps export you can use svg that can be an alternative
route)
Hans
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2020-02-20 9:15 Christoph Hintermüller
2020-02-20 9:28 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2020-02-20 13:57 ` Christoph Hintermüller
2020-02-20 14:03 ` Christoph Hintermüller
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