On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:04:27 +0100 "j. van den hoff" <veedeeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:43:29 +0100, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > > > * if `scale=' is not the way to achieve invariant and unambiguous > > size of images embedded in the document, what is? `width=XXX cm'? > > i.e.: how is this supposed to be done correctly(TM)? > > just use width=4cm and so > > understood, will do (thanks to henning, too, for answering). in any > case, I have settled for `width={fraction}\textwidth' as the most > convenient solution. but if you don't mind explaining: _why_ is > `scale' causing me a problem in the first place? what is the actual > intended (and good) use of this parameter? scale= is EXTREMELY useful when combining external figures and one wants to retain uniform linewidths, text pointsizes, etc. Using width= (or height=) in such a case will lead to very poor results, indeed. Alan P.S. Personally, I find that scale=1000 meaning 1 is an unfortunate left-over from the previous century - prehistoric days. In the chemistry module rewrite, we take abs(scale)>10 in units of 1000, just to confuse things. (Hans: I would suggest dropping this...). ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________