I've pushed an edit to the docs that attempts to address this point. https://github.com/racket/htdp/commit/86900c00e770f1336dafce331c206240495a9953
Robby On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Stephen Smith <stephen1965sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > When running the following example from the Racket docs section titled 'The > Nitty Gritty of Pixels, Pens, and Lines': > > (define p1 (make-pen "black" 1 "solid" "round" "round")) > > (rectangle 20 20 "outline" p1) > > instead of a rectangle with all four sides drawn with equal thickness as > shown in the example output, I get the top and left sides drawn with 1 pixel > and the right and bottom sides are drawn as gray lines. I'm running it in > DrRacket (v6.12). > > I suspected that DrRacket was cropping the image in the interactions area so > I did this: > > (overlay/align "middle" "middle" (rectangle 20 20 "outline" p1) (rectangle > 40 40 "outline" p1)) > > and sure enough, the inner rectangle appeared with all four sides having > equal thickness, as shown in the example. > > The cropping of the image in DrRacket might not be obvious to the reader > working along with the examples (even though that is, in essence, the > subject of this section :-). Should something be put in the docs to clarify > this? Perhaps add a snippet similar to what I created with the overlay/align > function and mention that DrRacket will crop the outer rectangle in the > interactions area? I know this seems to go against the 'writing style' used > in the docs but I believe most users will be following along with DrRacket. > Maybe a sidebar mention would be worthwhile to avoid initial confusion? > > Regards, > Stephen. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
