Hi, Not sure if I understand the problem correctly. You could try \starttext \startMPpage[offset=3pt] ahlength := 20; linejoin := mitered; drawarrow origin--(40,0) withpen pencircle scaled 5; \stopMPpage \startMPpage[offset=1cm] ahlength := 20; linejoin := mitered; drawarrow origin--(40,0) withpen pencircle scaled 5; \stopMPpage \stoptext Compile with context. /Mikael On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 7:07 PM Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:

The arrow looks fine to me in ConTeXt ver: 2022.01.10 08:36 LMTX. (See attached PDF)

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On 20 May 2022, at 17:56, Vincent Hennebert via ntg-context wrote:

Take the following MetaPost file:

beginfig(0) ahlength := 20; linejoin := mitered; drawarrow origin--(40,0) withpen pencircle scaled 5; endfig;

Render it into PDF with ConTeXt. Witness the cut out ends of the arrow. How to fix that?

Being able to add some margin would be a solution, which may be desirable anyway in some cases. Is that possible?

Thanks, Vincent

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On Sat, 2022-05-21 at 07:39 +0530, śrīrāma wrote:

On 5/20/22 10:26 PM Vincent Hennebert via ntg-context wrote:

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Take the following MetaPost file:

beginfig(0)   ahlength := 20;   linejoin := mitered;   drawarrow origin--(40,0) withpen pencircle scaled 5; endfig;

Render it into PDF with ConTeXt. Witness the cut out ends of the arrow. How to fix that?

Being able to add some margin would be a solution, which may be desirable anyway in some cases. Is that possible?

Enlarge the bounds of your picture –

  beginfig(0);     ahlength := 20;     linejoin := mitered;     drawarrow origin--(40,0) withpen pencircle scaled 5;

    setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 5mm;   endfig;

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! (I did find out about \startMPpage[offset=3pt], but that requires me to include my MetaPost file into an additional, somewhat superfluous TeX file. And for better editor support I prefer to edit the MetaPost in a .mp file, rather than embedded in a .tex.) Vincent