* Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label
@ 2009-03-27 20:52 CuriousLearn
2009-03-27 21:02 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: CuriousLearn @ 2009-03-27 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
Hi,
Is it possible to break labels in two lines if needed?
For example, suppose I have
label.rt(textext("Do you see this label text. Quite long. Need to break it
across lines"),(3,5));
Can I have it appear in the figure as
Do you see this label text.
Quite long. Need to break
it across lines.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread* Re: Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label 2009-03-27 20:52 Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label CuriousLearn @ 2009-03-27 21:02 ` Aditya Mahajan 2009-03-27 22:55 ` CuriousLearn 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2009-03-27 21:02 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, CuriousLearn wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to break labels in two lines if needed? > > For example, suppose I have > > label.rt(textext("Do you see this label text. Quite long. Need to break it > across lines"),(3,5)); label.rt(textext("\framed[frame=no,width=5cm]{....}", (3,5)) ; Aditya > Can I have it appear in the figure as > > Do you see this label text. > Quite long. Need to break > it across lines. > > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label 2009-03-27 21:02 ` Aditya Mahajan @ 2009-03-27 22:55 ` CuriousLearn 2009-03-27 23:45 ` Aditya Mahajan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: CuriousLearn @ 2009-03-27 22:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context Aditya Mahajan <adityam <at> umich.edu> writes: > > For example, suppose I have > > > > label.rt(textext("Do you see this label text. Quite long. Need to break it > > across lines"),(3,5)); > > label.rt(textext("\framed[frame=no,width=5cm]{....}", (3,5)) ; > > Aditya > Thanks Aditya. Sorry but that does not work. The text line just starts shifting to the left for me. It spills outside the frame. I tried with both MKIV and MKII. The MKIV version I tried with is ConTeXt ver: 2009.03.18 21:58 MKIV Any ideas why it may not be working for me? Thanks. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label 2009-03-27 22:55 ` CuriousLearn @ 2009-03-27 23:45 ` Aditya Mahajan 2009-03-28 0:17 ` CuriousLearn 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2009-03-27 23:45 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, CuriousLearn wrote: > Aditya Mahajan <adityam <at> umich.edu> writes: > > >>> For example, suppose I have >>> >>> label.rt(textext("Do you see this label text. Quite long. Need to break it >>> across lines"),(3,5)); >> >> label.rt(textext("\framed[frame=no,width=5cm]{....}", (3,5)) ; >> >> Aditya >> > > Thanks Aditya. Sorry but that does not work. The text line just starts shifting > to the left for me. It spills outside the frame. > > I tried with both MKIV and MKII. The MKIV version I tried with is > > ConTeXt ver: 2009.03.18 21:58 MKIV > > Any ideas why it may not be working for me? Because I did not test before posting :) Try \framed[align=normal, width=5cm, frame=no]{....} Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label 2009-03-27 23:45 ` Aditya Mahajan @ 2009-03-28 0:17 ` CuriousLearn 2009-03-28 0:33 ` Aditya Mahajan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: CuriousLearn @ 2009-03-28 0:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context Aditya Mahajan <adityam <at> umich.edu> writes: > > > > Any ideas why it may not be working for me? > > Because I did not test before posting :) > > Try \framed[align=normal, width=5cm, frame=no]{....} > > Aditya Awesome! That works great. Before asking I tried searching a lot in metafun manual and on the web but could not find anything. I am not yet clear about the logic. When I saw that I could color labels using the \color[red]{red} command by putting it between btex...etex, it seemed to me that any context command would work if put in there. So I tried \crlf to get a linebreak and that did not work. So I thought maybe only very few specific commands work. Now after seeing your solution, again I am wondering, what determines which commands work and which do not. Anyhow, I am not asking for an explanation, because it will most probably beyond me and may be a long one for someone to explain. But I appreciate the solution. Thanks again. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label 2009-03-28 0:17 ` CuriousLearn @ 2009-03-28 0:33 ` Aditya Mahajan 2009-03-28 0:49 ` Wolfgang Schuster 2009-03-28 1:09 ` CuriousLearn 0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2009-03-28 0:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, CuriousLearn wrote: > Aditya Mahajan <adityam <at> umich.edu> writes: > > >>> >>> Any ideas why it may not be working for me? >> >> Because I did not test before posting :) >> >> Try \framed[align=normal, width=5cm, frame=no]{....} >> >> Aditya > > Awesome! That works great. Before asking I tried searching a lot in metafun > manual and on the web but could not find anything. I am not yet clear about the > logic. When I saw that I could color labels using the \color[red]{red} command > by putting it between btex...etex, it seemed to me that any context command > would work if put in there. So I tried \crlf to get a linebreak and that did not > work. So I thought maybe only very few specific commands work. Now after seeing > your solution, again I am wondering, what determines which commands work and > which do not. Anyhow, I am not asking for an explanation, because it will most > probably beyond me and may be a long one for someone to explain. But I > appreciate the solution. Here is a simplified picture. Basically, anything inside btex ... etex (or textext(...) or \sometxt{...}) is in what is known as TeX's horizontal mode. Think of this as what you will get if you put the same argument in a \hbox (see the TeXbook or TeX for the impatient for details). To get multiple lines you need tex to be in the vertical mode, a \vbox. A vanilla \framed is like a \hbox. Framed with align=normal is like a \vbox. So, for most purposes you can you \framed. There are some commands that need to know the width of the box (like \start stop formula). In those cases you need to specify width=something to \framed. Of course, certain objects like floats, footnotes, marginpars, will never work inside metapost. (I think you can get floats and footnotes to work, but that will require some hackery) Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label 2009-03-28 0:33 ` Aditya Mahajan @ 2009-03-28 0:49 ` Wolfgang Schuster 2009-03-28 2:09 ` Aditya Mahajan 2009-03-28 1:09 ` CuriousLearn 1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2009-03-28 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Am 28.03.2009 um 01:33 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: > Of course, certain objects like floats, footnotes, marginpars, will > never work inside metapost. (I think you can get floats and > footnotes to work, but that will require some hackery) You could use streams and local footnotes. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label 2009-03-28 0:49 ` Wolfgang Schuster @ 2009-03-28 2:09 ` Aditya Mahajan 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2009-03-28 2:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 28.03.2009 um 01:33 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: > >> Of course, certain objects like floats, footnotes, marginpars, will never >> work inside metapost. (I think you can get floats and footnotes to work, >> but that will require some hackery) > > You could use streams and local footnotes. As always, Hans has already done the hackery. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Linebreak in Metapost/Metafun Label 2009-03-28 0:33 ` Aditya Mahajan 2009-03-28 0:49 ` Wolfgang Schuster @ 2009-03-28 1:09 ` CuriousLearn 1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: CuriousLearn @ 2009-03-28 1:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context Aditya Mahajan <adityam <at> umich.edu> writes: > Here is a simplified picture. Basically, anything inside btex ... etex (or > textext(...) or \sometxt{...}) is in what is known as TeX's horizontal > mode. Think of this as what you will get if you put the same argument in a > \hbox (see the TeXbook or TeX for the impatient for details). To get > multiple lines you need tex to be in the vertical mode, a \vbox. A vanilla > \framed is like a \hbox. Framed with align=normal is like a \vbox. So, for > most purposes you can you \framed. There are some commands that need to > know the width of the box (like \start stop formula). In those cases you > need to specify width=something to \framed. > > Of course, certain objects like floats, footnotes, marginpars, will never > work inside metapost. (I think you can get floats and footnotes to work, > but that will require some hackery) > > Aditya Thanks very much for the explanation. Now I understand much better. I remember reading about the importance of horizontal mode and vertical mode in the Seroul and Levy's book I think. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
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