From pburns at pburns.seanet.com  Tue Jul 22 18:31:20 2008
From: pburns at pburns.seanet.com (Patrick Burns)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:31:20 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)
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Basically the only thing in the thread that was clear
to me was Brian's phrasing.  So I'd suggest basing
any changes on that.


Patrick Burns
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S Ellison wrote:
> Yup; you're all right - it IS consistent (and I'd even checked the x-adj
> and it did what I expected!!). It's just that ?text is talking about the
> position of the 'anchor' point in the text region rather than the
> subsequent location of the centre of the text.
>
> Anyway; if anyone is considering a minor tweak to ?text, would it be
> clearer if it said 
> "Values of 0, 0.5, and 1 specify text towards right/top, middle and
> left/bottom of x,y, 
>      respectively." ?
>
> (or, of course, "Values of 0, 0.5, and 1 specify x,y at left/bottom,
> middle and right/top of text, respectively.")
>
> Steve Ellison
> Lab of the Government Chemist
> UK
>
>
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[Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)
Patrick Burns