[racket] freeze and bounding boxes

From: David Van Horn (dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 18 21:26:12 EST 2012

On 1/18/12 9:05 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:22 PM, David Van Horn<dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu>  wrote:
>> By the way, I think you can see this phenomenon in the rendering of the
>> 2htdp/image docs.  So for example, the section you referred me to has this
>> example:
>>
>>    (let* ([s (rectangle 20 20 "outline" "black")]
>>           [r (beside s s s s s s)])
>>        (above r r r r r r))
>>
>> which when run in DrRacket produces a grid, but in the docs crops the right
>> and bottom lines.  That makes the discussion about cropping very confusing.
>>   Also: it seems you cannot in general have Scribble examples that involve
>> outlined shapes such that they look like they really appear in DrRacket.
>
> I see the attached in the docs. Do you see differently?

Ah, sorry -- this has changed between the release and the nightly build 
and I was looking at the online release docs.  I see the right thing 
locally and on pre.racket-lang.org.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/teachpack/pict_132.png
http://pre.racket-lang.org/docs/html/teachpack/pict_133.png

David

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