RE: Metapost - text alignment

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

> > From the documentation, I do not understand the scope of the 
> bounding 
> > box information (when it exists, and how it can be accessed), I will 
> > try to find some time to play with it soon.  Right now, I don't even 
> > have LaTeX up and running on my laptop.
> >
> >                  Rob
>
> The following MetaPost program 'does the right thing'.  And 
> should provide a guide for positioning _any_ LaTeX text as one 
> would hope.
>
> Turns out it was pretty simple, once you wrap your head around 
> MetaPost.  (I got some help from Usenet).  We can throw two 
> simple macros into the MetaPost boilerplate, and everything 
> should be easy.

<snip>

I've used Rob McDonalds example macros and hopefully improved the
metapost output. Please take a look at bug 332554 and let me know how I
can improve it.

Note that I've not used the draw_text_line. Because draw_string needs to
know how to align the text, I've implemented draw_text and this calls
draw_string. Sorry Lars, I just couldn't see any way around it (well, I
didn't think very hard).

Regards,
Rob.