Re: Previewing an SVG generated by METAPOST

I believe that what I should conclude is that the extent of a graphic is
only calculated from the centerline of a graphic and that the clipping is
to be expected if I don't explicitly adjust for it.

Thanks! I'll begin to do so.

William

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 9:47 AM luigi scarso <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM William Adams <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> With v1.8, METAPOST allows one to create an SVG --- unfortunately, there
>> aren't any TeX / code editors which have SVG previewers as far as I can
>> tell.
>>
>> Found:
>>
>> https://code.google.com/archive/p/file-monitor/
>>
>> but it seems to be broken in Windows 10 --- one has to switch to its
>> window and press F5 --- is there an updated version of this program, or
>> some other easy way to preview an SVG?
>>
>> An application with nice tools for this would be welcome.
>>
>> BTW, the file:
>>
>> outputtemplate := "%j-%c.svg"; prologues := 3; outputformat := "svg";
>> beginfig(1); z0 = (0,0); z1 = (60,40); z2 = (40,90); z3 = (10,70); z4 = (
>> 30,45); draw z0..z1..z2..z3--z4--cycle endfig; end
>>
>>
>> is clipped at the top --- should it be?
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>> the pen ?
>
> prologues := 3;
> outputformat := "svg";
> beginfig(1);
> z0 = (0,0); z1 = (60,40);
> z2 = (40,90); z3 = (10,70);
> z4 = (30,45);
>
> draw z0..z1..z2..z3--z4--cycle withpen pencircle scaled 0.001pt;
> endfig;
> end
>
>
> --
> luigi
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