TEXT POSSIBILITIES

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USING TEXT

The use of text on METAGRAF can be discussed acording with two "big" classifications. On one side there is the usual, standard straight text; on the other there is one of the "strongest" points of MG: the capability to write and include in any metapost drawing, curved text in the simplest and easiest way. The former will be explained in what follows and afterwards there will be a complete revue of curved text.

To begin with, it will be included a listing of the possibilities allowed by METAGRAF with "normal" text.

Any of this possibilities can be used in the simplest way, just clicking a couple of buttons or choosing from a clear menu.

Regarding curved text, there is also a big amount of possibilities to choose from with just one restriction. This last is clear: No mathematical text can be curved (how will be a square root of a big fraction curved 90 degrees along its axis?...althought, why not?, perhaps some day...).

Text along a curved path has in MG the possibilities that follows:

Finally it must be said that it is possible to use different fonts in the same drawing, straight or curved, scaled or not...etc. Hereby this example of a draw done exclusively with fonts.

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