Re: More MetaPost text positioning....

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 22.02.2006 15:06, Rob McDonald wrote:
> > Hans,
[...]
> Ok, I got an answer from the good people at comp.text.tex .  Would you like
> me to append this to the previous bug, or open a new one, or what?
A bug report with a some summary of this mail is the right thing to do.
It does not matter much if you reopen the previous one or open a new one.

> As the label command (and all its variants) are based on positioning text by
> the coordinates of its bounding box, it is impossible to get precisely
> controlled text layout (using that command) in MetaPost.
>
> Instead, you have to use the (less powerful) draw command...  It is less
> powerful because draw won't take care of left, right, center positioning for
> you.  You'll have to calculate that yourself...
>
> For an example of a list of attributes in a UML diagram.
Talking of UML (class?) diagram I had another issue with the matapost 
plug-in: collision with TeX escapes and special chars marking the
access of class members. Could you try Self/dia-core.dia and suggest
some solution (maybe escaping as done in pstricks?).

Thanks,
        Hans

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