? 2010?06?05? 10:56, Adam Fuller ??:
my initial post had a mistake: i meant to refer to the /Metafun/
manual, not the Metapost manual. that probably didn't help.
Actually, I know that you mean the /Metafun/ manual.
i guess what i should have said is, i know that pxy can give me the
bounding /box/ (the rectangle with the maximum horizontal and vertical
extents of its contents, be they set in horizontal or vertical mode),
but can it give me the subset of that, the bounding /path/, if you
will, when the contents are text which flows over several lines. the
bounding /path/ may not be rectangular, although it will be something
like the union of the bounding boxes of the text's individual lines.
So now, I understand what mean.
i think if you look at the correct reference, the difference of the
effects is clear. i think the challenge is that you don't know where
the line breaks will occur until you typeset it. --adam
And the source code from the manual may help you:
\setupMPvariables[mpos:box][linecolor=darkred]
\setupMPvariables[mpos:par][linecolor=darkred]
\startpositionoverlay{backgraphics}
\setMPpositiongraphic{A-3}{mpos:box}{self=A-3}
\setMPpositiongraphic{A-4}{mpos:box}{self=A-4}
\setMPpositiongraphic{b:A-5}{mpos:par}{self=A-5}
\setMPpositiongraphic{b:A-6}{mpos:par}{self=A-6}
\stoppositionoverlay
\fpos {A-5} Because the text must be laid on top of
the graphic, the graphic must precede the first word in the
typeset stream or it must be positioned on a separate layer.
In the latter case it can be calculated directly after the
paragraph is typeset, but in the former case a second pass
is needed. \tpos {A-5}
Given the above code, I think you can get some information about the
horizontal and vertical pos of texts from \fpos and \tpos. And the
mpos:par is defined in anch-pgr.mkii and anch-pgr.mkiv. But I haven't
dig into the code which implement mpos:par. Hope you can find useful
information there.
And hope the following message I just searched out will help you too:
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080107.024554.314d9fee.ca.html
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