Hi Jan, Am 05.04.2014 15:48, schrieb Jan Heinen: > \startuseMPgraphic{rotatedHeadline} > % Text "Headline" in a box which is rotated > draw btex {\strut\tfd Headline} etex;
setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 2mm; The following code is based on the boundingbox, so just make it bigger beforehand. > > % rectangle with rounded corners > path p; > p := llcorner currentpicture+(0mm,3mm){down}..{right}llcorner > currentpicture+(3mm,0mm)-- > lrcorner currentpicture+(-3mm,0mm){right}..{up}lrcorner > currentpicture+(0mm,3mm)-- > urcorner currentpicture+(0mm,-3mm){up}..{left}urcorner > currentpicture+(-3mm,0mm)-- > ulcorner currentpicture+(3mm,0mm){left}..{down}ulcorner > currentpicture+(0mm,-3mm)--cycle; > pickup pencircle scaled 0.5pt; > clip currentpicture to p; > draw p; > currentpicture := currentpicture rotated 90; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > > \starttext > \useMPgraphic{rotatedHeadline} > \stoptext Best wishes, Peter ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________