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--- metapost [2019/06/02 23:13] – [Symbol Sizing and Positioning] clarify symbol parameter indicator brucemutton
+++ metapost [2019/06/02 23:21] – [Symbol Sizing and Positioning] clarify symbol parameter indicator brucemutton
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 Here it is inserted into an electric light symbol definition.  The code is between the lines with % % %.  It creates a green insertion point, a red origin point that represents the (0u, 0u) origin of the symbol, a light blue rectangle that represents the loci of the alignment options (left, top-left etc), and a grey unit symbol size. Note that this code requires that T:= ... rotated BEFORE aligned.  If your symbol uses T:= ... aligned BEFORE rotated, then the code needs to be modified slightly.
-After writing the code, I realised that this symbol was in fact larger than 0.7u in the y direction, therefore the U: variable is not tall enough, the symbol is not centered around around its (0u,0u) coordinates and it is just a bit (but probably acceptably) larger than u in size!
+After writing the code, I realised that this symbol was in fact larger than 0.7u in the y direction, therefore the U: variable is not tall enough, the symbol is not centered around around its (0u,0u) coordinates (which might be OK if you want the space below the luminaire to be part of the 'symbol') and it is just a bit (but probably acceptably) larger than u in size!
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