Good morning Something I noticed some years ago, and I have noticed again recently. The alignment of point continuations does not properly adhere to the alignment conventions that other textual point labels (such as label, remark, date) do. -align [left | right] typically draws the symbol to the left or right of the 'point' that is drawn. For continuations, this occurs for the question mark, but not for the 'debug-like' text that is written describing the continuation. This debug-like text is always written to the right of the question mark. The debug-like text does responds to <br> text string codes, but not to <centre> or <left> codes, as other text entities do. This only affects point continuations that have been redefined like this; code metapost def p_continuation(expr pos,theta,sc,al) = % draw default continuation symbol p_continuation_UIS(pos,theta,sc,al); % if text attribute is set if known(ATTR__text) and picture(ATTR__text): % set labeling color to light orange push_label_fill_color(1.0, 0.9, 0.8); % draw filled label with text next to ? p_label.urt(ATTR__text,(.5u,-.25u) transformed T,0.0,8); % restore original labeling color pop_label_fill_color; fi; enddef; endcode So perhaps there is something to change in this metapost? I suspect around the line that starts with p_label.urt.. For example, here is a drawing with a point continuation I have tried to align top-left. point continuation -text "vegetable debris<br>gas bubbles up from sand" -attr who "B Mutton" -attr what passage -attr priority caution -attr ref plan -align tl Does anyone have a solution to this? Regards Bruce
