Re: [NTG-context] Margins around figures

2007-09-08 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/7/07, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:18:30AM +0200, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: Perhaps setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 5mm; at the end of your MetaPost drawing might do what you want? That's probably in the right direction, but the

Re: [NTG-context] Margins around figures

2007-09-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Mojka, On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 11:14:30AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Since plain metapost doesn't know about ConTeXt (metafun) extentions, you need to: - either add a line input metafun ; at the top of your metapost files This works just as I expect! Many thanks! - or run mptopdf

Re: [NTG-context] Margins around figures

2007-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/9/7, Oliver Buerschaper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mpost seminar.mp This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (seminar.mp (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/TEX.mp) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/boxes.mp) boundingbox.currentpicture.enlarged1cm ! Improper `clip'. to be

Re: [NTG-context] Margins around figures

2007-09-07 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
I am making a presentation with ConTeXt, with numerous MetaPost figures. Now, the only problem is that my white MetaPost figures don't blend well with the dark background of the screen. This isn't too good since the text labels in my figure's edges appear too close to the edge. What I'd like

Re: [NTG-context] Margins around figures

2007-09-07 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
mpost seminar.mp This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (seminar.mp (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/TEX.mp) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/boxes.mp) boundingbox.currentpicture.enlarged1cm ! Improper `clip'. to be read again ; l.26 ...o

Re: [NTG-context] Margins around figures

2007-09-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:16:50PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: But, is there still an elegant way to have more margin in MetaPost images? OK, a cheap and dirty workaround: define a blank label at a location outside the bounds of your actual picture, and MetaPost does the needful. Inelegant, but

Re: [NTG-context] Margins around figures

2007-09-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:18:30AM +0200, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: Perhaps setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 5mm; at the end of your MetaPost drawing might do what you want? That's probably in the right direction, but the MetaPost newbie I am, I am unable to

Re: [NTG-context] Margins around figures

2007-09-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:31:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: He can set the offset in ConTeXt and not in MetaPost, e.g. \offset[leftoffset=...]{\externalfigure[fugurename]} The \offset command is described in the details manual, he can also look at the definition in core-box. Well,

[NTG-context] Margins around figures

2007-09-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Deat ConTeXt users, I am making a presentation with ConTeXt, with numerous MetaPost figures. Now, the only problem is that my white MetaPost figures don't blend well with the dark background of the screen. This isn't too good since the text labels in my figure's edges appear too close to the