On 2/17/2017 5:51 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
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...).

sx=
sy=

iir small scales are also seen as fractions

-----------------------------------------------------------------
                                          Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
              Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
       tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl
-----------------------------------------------------------------
___________________________________________________________________________________
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
___________________________________________________________________________________

Reply via email to