Re: [NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

6 Jul 2006


      On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
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p := textext("\AXIS{z}{3}{Optical Size}");
 p := p rotatedaround (z[13], angle(z[5]-z[1])) ;
 % inv tan(1.5/2)
 % Let metapost calculate it for you
% Ugly kludge
 label(p,z[13]+(0,2labeloffset));
This can be done neatly if one remembers that label is equivalent to 
draw thelabel. Hence,

  p := textext("\AXIS{z}{3}{Optical Size}");
  label.top(p,z[13]) rotatedaround (z[13], angle(z[5]-z[1]) ) ;

Aditya