On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:04:27 +0100
"j. van den hoff" <veedeeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:43:29 +0100, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> > * if `scale=' is not the way to achieve invariant and unambiguous
> > size of images embedded in the document, what is? `width=XXX cm'?
> > i.e.: how is this supposed to be done correctly(TM)?
> > just use width=4cm and so
>
> understood, will do (thanks to henning, too, for answering). in any
> case, I have settled for `width={fraction}\textwidth' as the most
> convenient solution. but if you don't mind explaining: _why_ is
> `scale' causing me a problem in the first place? what is the actual
> intended (and good) use of this parameter?
scale= is EXTREMELY useful when combining external figures and one
wants to retain uniform linewidths, text pointsizes, etc. Using width=
(or height=) in such a case will lead to very poor results, indeed.
Alan
P.S. Personally, I find that scale=1000 meaning 1 is an unfortunate
left-over from the previous century - prehistoric days. In the
chemistry module rewrite, we take abs(scale)>10 in units of 1000, just
to confuse things. (Hans: I would suggest dropping this...).
___________________________________________________________________________________
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://context.aanhet.net
archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
