[Therion] \legendwidth was: symbol-color special

Andrew Atkinson andrew at wotcc.org.uk
Tue Apr 23 09:33:51 CEST 2013


Thanks, excellently clear and works perfectly

I have tried to translate put all these emails only the wiki if you
could spare a moment to check I have not mis-understood anything it is
the 3rd one down on

http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/tex#tex-map

thanks

Andrew

On 22/04/13 21:35, Martin Budaj wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Andrew Atkinson <andrew at wotcc.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>>  however as soon as I add the comment under the scale bar
>>
>>     \legendbox{60}{10}{nw}{
>>     \northarrow
>>      \bigskip
>>      \scalebar
>>   \bigskip
>>    \bigskip
>>  \the\comment
>>     }
>>
>> it expands to the right by quiet a bit
> 
> The value of \legendwith is evaluated only in the predefined macro
> \legendcontent which prints the complete legend. In your case
> (\legendbox customisation) you need to set the width of the \legendbox
> in this way (guess without compiling your data):
> 
>     \legendbox{60}{10}{nw}{
>       \hsize=\legendwidth  %% or directly e.g. \hsize=5 cm
>       \northarrow
>       \bigskip
>       \scalebar
>       \bigskip
>       \bigskip
>       \the\comment
>     }
> 
> The reason for the right margin expansion in your example is that TeX
> typesets \the\comment in a paragraph, the witdth of which is set to
> the current \hsize (which is the width of map without margins I
> think).
> 
> cheers,
> Martin
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