Thanks for your quick replies gents.
Jim I think the invisible box concept for typesetting is very useful and
key to the source of the issue: the documentation is referring to the
typesetting position within an invisible box, something (I would posit)
most users won't expect. So while the
Perhaps the documentation could be clearer, though. (I've been confused by
it also.) How about:
adj allows adjustment of the text with respect to (x, y). Values of 0, 0.5
and 1 specify that text will appear right of/above, centred around, and
left of/below the anchor point, respectively.
On
Exactly. And left alignment means that the left end of the text is aligned with
the anchor point, etc. So documentation is correct.
-pd
> On 19 Sep 2018, at 01:33 , Jim Lemon wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
> I think the conventions of typesetting are to blame. Think of an
> invisible box around the
