Re: How to crop oversized objects?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Mark Summerfield <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't think anything should ever be dropped by lout. At worst lout
> should either scale or put in 
>     red @Color{DROPPED}
> so that you can see what's happened even if you miss it in the mass of
> error messages.

Agreed (except that I'd prefer an error message rather than red-colored
text).

> To get full generality I'd suggest
>
>     @Clip width{}height{}leftoffset{}topoffset{}{Object}
>
> with 
>     5i @Wide 3c @High @Clip{}
>
> also supported.

Yes, address@hidden' sounds like a good idea.  I'd remove the `width' and
`height' named parameters, though, since they are redundant with the box
that's set up with address@hidden' and address@hidden'.

Thanks,
Ludovic.