[Ipe-discuss] Text and line

[Otfried Cheong]

I'm afraid there is no way to let the colored background shine through but block the black line.    You will have to replace the line by two shorter ones in this situation.     You could still exploit Ipe's alignment modes:

1) Draw the whole measurement line first,
2) Draw the text label
3) Align the text with the line using the right centering mode,
4) Draw two shorter lines using vertex and boundary snapping, so that they start at the endpoints of the whole line and end on it near the label,
5) Delete the long line.

One could certainly make an ipelet to do steps 3 - 5.

Cheers,
  Otfried

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, at 18:47, Tony via Ipe-discuss wrote:
>  the idea is to make sure that the text box is in the middle of the 
> black line, but without the white background. I entered three text 
> boxes. in the first and in the third I used ipelets / Goodles / 
> insertBoundBox, in the second box nothing.
> would it be possible to have the text in boxes 1 and 2 have a 
> transparent and not white background, without the black line being 
> seen? I hope I have explained the problem
> 
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