i am still confused. page% -> that is the width of the page from paper edge to paper edge? line% -> that is the width from from margin to margin? or is that text%
and which of these settings include footer and header - that would be pheight% as opposed to theight%? actually, these abbreviations are not very logic - i can choose width = theight and hight=text - i find that confusing. my current problem is a narrow, figure that is quite high. i would like it to be rescaled maintaining aspect ratio, but the height should be fitted to the height of the text-body - so it doesnt go over the edge of the paper, or interferes with the footer or header. evidently i have to do some pretty random things to get there. first of all, since the determining factor is the height, i need to adjust the height option - and to do that - i have to alter the width option from "scale%" to something else. but in doing that - i may be setting the determining factor to something width related??? but i must set the width option to something before i am allowed to set the height option.... so with widht=theight% height=theight% and aspect ratio selected. that results in the figure overshooting the right margin - but the bottom margin is ok. - and with width=line% and height=theight% and aspect ratio selected - and the result overshoots the bottom margin - but the right margin is ok. now, i am pretty sure that it should be possible in a reasonable amount of time to get these settings set so that both the right and bottom margin overshoots - but how to get it right? martin On 12/12/05, Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > i have been trying to figure out how the different settings in > > graphic-output works. > > > > what are the meaning of these ( this is not mentioned in the docs?!? ) ? > > > > text% > > col% > > page% > > line% > > theight% > > pheight% > > THese allow you to scale the image as you want it to be on the page. So > say your original graphic is A4 sized but you want it to be much smaller > in print then the following are useful > > text% - this is percentage of text width > col% - column width > page% - page width > line% - line width > theight% - text height > pheight% - page height > > So you can set either the width or height of the image. Using the > 'maintain aspect ratio' box locks the figure so that if you halve the > width you also halve the height. It stops the figure getting distorted. > However you can set the height and width thus forcing the image to > distort. > > In general i set the width of my figures so they look how i want (taking > in to account the aspect ratio) and use the text% option. > > Just play about and see what suits. > > Geoff > > > > > when to use which? > > > > moreover, when to set height and width? > > > > and when to use the "maintain aspect ratio" button? > > > > > > martin > > >
