Re: METAPOST outputl, and control points of text

[Frederick Reiss <phred cs berkeley edu>]

Hi, XO,

I submitted a patch a few weeks ago to fix font sizes and text placement 
in the METAPOST output.  I believe the changes are in CVS now.  There 
are instructions for getting a CVS shapshot of Dia under "Getting the 
latest sources from CVS" on the "Developers" section of the Dia home page.

             -Fred

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> Would it be possible to put the control points of text in the middle
> of the text, or easier, change the way that metapost generates output?
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> The problem is that with METAPOST output, it appears to use the control
> point as the basis for centering the text, whereas in other outputs the
> text is centered as it visibly appears in the document.
>
> This is troublesome when multiple output formats are required, where
> METAPOST is included in the multiple outputs, because then the position
> of text has to be moved to make it look centered.
>
> Also in my version, METAPOST doesn't generate colored text; all the generated
> text is black.
>
> The text is also often too small, is there anyway to make it bigger in
> dia, i.e. without having to modify the mp file post-dia?
>
> Regards
>
> X0