Thanks, excellently clear and works perfectly I have tried to translate put all these emails only the wiki if you could spare a moment to check I have not mis-understood anything it is the 3rd one down on
http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/tex#tex-map thanks Andrew On 22/04/13 21:35, Martin Budaj wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Andrew Atkinson <andrew at wotcc.org.uk> > wrote: > >> however as soon as I add the comment under the scale bar >> >> \legendbox{60}{10}{nw}{ >> \northarrow >> \bigskip >> \scalebar >> \bigskip >> \bigskip >> \the\comment >> } >> >> it expands to the right by quiet a bit > > The value of \legendwith is evaluated only in the predefined macro > \legendcontent which prints the complete legend. In your case > (\legendbox customisation) you need to set the width of the \legendbox > in this way (guess without compiling your data): > > \legendbox{60}{10}{nw}{ > \hsize=\legendwidth %% or directly e.g. \hsize=5 cm > \northarrow > \bigskip > \scalebar > \bigskip > \bigskip > \the\comment > } > > The reason for the right margin expansion in your example is that TeX > typesets \the\comment in a paragraph, the witdth of which is set to > the current \hsize (which is the width of map without margins I > think). > > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion >
