Re: Millimeters grid units
André Lebacq <[email protected]>
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On 27 May 2013, at 06:21, Otfried Cheong <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/24/2013 06:38 PM, André Lebacq wrote: >> I would like to have a grid with millimeters units (0.5, 1, 2, 4mm). >> I try to set a line like <gridsize name="1 mm" value="2.835"/> >> (72/25.4 = 2.835 pt = 1mm) in a new style sheet, but it seems IPE >> round this value down to 2pt. Is there any way to specify a >> fractional grid size in the style sheet ? > > The grid size has to be an integer. In a previous Ipe version it was > possible to use fractional grid sizes, but that lead to rounding errors > that were hard to control, and grid points not really being on the grid. > > I intend to make this possible at some point by making the Ipe > coordinate system flexible (that is, the document can specify that a > unit of 1 will be, say, 1/10 mm), but this needs to be thought through > properly (e.g. a linewidth of 1 will also have a different meaning then). Good to hear that it will appear again ! > Right now, the only thing you can do is set the grid to, say 3 pts, and > scale the figure by 2.834646/3.0 when you print it. Since Ipe was > designed to make figures for Latex documents, scaling is easy when you > include the figure. Ok. My concern, if I do this was about the font sizes. If I set a 10pt font size, to fit well with my document, the graphics letters will be resized by a 2.8 factor as well, no ? Thanks, André. > > Cheers, > Otfried > > _______________________________________________ > Ipe-discuss mailing list > Ipe-discuss-rGrgPyRx506NN8uzcEdRPYRWq/[email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/ipe-discuss -- André Lebacq Rue Camille Simoens 23 1030 Schaerbeek T : +32 472 20 71 31