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.