Hello Peter,

thanks for your explanation. Hm, that also makes clear why the diagonal works 
without setting the bounding box. 

Willi
On 4 Aug 2010, at 09:45, Peter Rolf wrote:

> Hi Willi,
> 
> Am 04.08.2010 08:57, schrieb Willi Egger:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I need to use the background mechanism to draw a thicker line in a 
>> bTABLE...eTABLE setup together with MKII.
>> It looks like that there is a bug somewhere in this. I am unable to draw the 
>> line at the top of the cell. However it is possible to draw a diagonal 
>> through the cel. I think that the problem is related to the background 
>> mechanism in general, because the problem is also present when using the 
>> background mechanism in framed. The behavior is identical in MKII en MKIV.
>> I updated this morning to the latest version of Context, the bug is there as 
>> it was in a version ca 1 month old.
>> 
> No bug, only the bounding box. The relative position of a graphic does
> not count any longer, if the graphic leaves MP.
> For example: drawing a fullcircle/unitcircle results in the same
> graphic, although they have a different center point. Only the final
> boundingbox is counting here (equal in this case).
> In your example the boundingbox has the size (OverlayWidth,2pt) or
> (OverlayWidth+2pt,2p) if you ignore the linewidth. So you need a manual
> boundingbox setup, as in the attached example. The Topline does not
> cross the borders of the OverlayBox (donno if this is wanted, but easy
> to change).
> 
> Best wishes,  Peter
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