Re: [NTG-context] Scale image in MetaPost, maintaining aspect ratio

2018-07-07 Thread Marco Patzer
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:27:38 -0600 Alan Braslau wrote: > For "historic" reasons, > draw externalfigure "cow" scaled 5cm ; > normalizes the figure to a square. This will not be changed as it is a > very old feature of MetaFun. > > The solution is > draw rawtextext("\externalfigure[cow]")

Re: [NTG-context] Scale image in MetaPost, maintaining aspect ratio

2018-07-07 Thread Marco Patzer
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 22:27:51 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 7/7/2018 8:58 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: > > Hi! > > > > How to scale an image in MetaPost, maintaining the aspect ratio > > (without specifying the height explicitly)? > > > > Example: > > > > \setupexternalfigures [location=default] > >

Re: [NTG-context] Scale image in MetaPost, maintaining aspect ratio

2018-07-07 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/7/2018 8:58 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: Hi! How to scale an image in MetaPost, maintaining the aspect ratio (without specifying the height explicitly)? Example: \setupexternalfigures [location=default] \starttext \externalfigure [cow][width=5cm] \startMPcode draw externalfigure

Re: [NTG-context] Scale image in MetaPost, maintaining aspect ratio

2018-07-07 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 20:58:40 +0200 Marco Patzer wrote: > Hi! > > How to scale an image in MetaPost, maintaining the aspect ratio > (without specifying the height explicitly)? > > Example: > > \setupexternalfigures [location=default] > \starttext > \externalfigure [cow][width=5cm] > >

[NTG-context] Scale image in MetaPost, maintaining aspect ratio

2018-07-07 Thread Marco Patzer
Hi! How to scale an image in MetaPost, maintaining the aspect ratio (without specifying the height explicitly)? Example: \setupexternalfigures [location=default] \starttext \externalfigure [cow][width=5cm] \startMPcode draw externalfigure "cow" scaled 5cm; \stopMPcode \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] text in mathematics

2018-07-07 Thread Hans Ã…berg
> On 7 Jul 2018, at 16:04, Alan Braslau wrote: > Does it drive you crazy to see TeX users write $t = time$? > (I see this all of the time by LaTeX users in Beamer presentations.) > > One can do better writing $t = {\rm time}$ (maybe) > or in ConTeXt $t = \mathrm{time}$. > Sometimes, too, I

[NTG-context] text in mathematics

2018-07-07 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello ConTeXt users, Does it drive you crazy to see TeX users write $t = time$? (I see this all of the time by LaTeX users in Beamer presentations.) One can do better writing $t = {\rm time}$ (maybe) or in ConTeXt $t = \mathrm{time}$. Sometimes, too, I might write $t = \text{time}$. We also