This is used in Plots.jl and I am wondering how to create a boundings box which width is set to "100%"

looking into the code it seems that everything is only setup for absolutelengths. It would be nice to also support relative measures.

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I'm not sure who has commit access here, but any chance a new release could be tagged to include this fix: db6e955

This fix solves weird behavior whenever x or y is zero. See: JuliaPlots/Plots.jl#68

From #14 (comment), I see that switching to Unitful.jl was once (still is?) considered. Barring that, I'm wondering if there's a way to convert eg mm into inches?

For example, with Unitful: uconvert(u"inch",183u"mm"), or simply import Unitful: mm, inch; uconvert(inch,183mm).

How to do this right now in case it helps a stray Julian:

using Measures, Unitful
W = 200mm
uconvert(u"inch",Quantity(W.value,u"mm"))

Seems like BoundingBox isn't strict enough on validating the types of inputs for its constructor. All bounding boxes have an origin as an NTuple and size NTuple where N is the same. This isn't enforced in the types.

Hence, the following constructors are valid (but likely shouldn't be):

BoundingBox((0mm,), 1mm, 2mm)
BoundingBox((0mm, 3mm, 8mm), 1mm, 4mm)
BoundingBox((0mm, 3mm), 1mm, 2mm, 4mm)
BoundingBox((0mm, 6mm, 3mm, 8mm), 1mm, 2mm, 4mm)

Note that the first argument in each of these constructors is the origin of the bounding box and the latter arguments are the individual components are the dimensions of each size.