RE: Metapost - text alignment

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> Lars Clausen wrote
>On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:36 +1030, Young, Robert wrote:
>
>> If we had a LaTex render, it would be a different story. No one has 
>> the time to do one before 0.96 comes out. So my patch was aiming for 
>> something that would work in most instances. Using text_line 
>blows up 
>> on equations, where as my proposed patch at least leaves the 
>> right/centre/left alignment correct, and gets the odd text 
>width wrong 
>> (but within a couple of percent for sans, serif and monospace). I am 
>> very keen to receive examples of where it doesn't work so that I can 
>> improve it.
>
>Having it a little shorter rather than a little longer is in 
>general better.  I think we shall go with your patch for 0.96.

Thank you - please merge it when you get a chance. Maybe there'll be
time to improve it after 0.96.

Thanks Lars and Rob McD for all the helpful discussions - it certainly
has brought out some of the difficult issues you've had to face in
getting the text to work in dia!

Regards,
Rob.