Re: How to get randomly coloured text in metapost?

[Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>]

On Tuesday 11 May 2010 17:48:09 Marco wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how to get random colours for text inside textext? Take a look at the
> following example (MKIV).
> 
> \definecolor [static] [r=.9, g=.7, b=.8]
> \starttext
> \startuseMPgraphic {1}
> 
> def col=
>   (uniformdeviate(1),uniformdeviate(1),uniformdeviate(1))
> enddef;
> 
> % These dots have a random color
> for i=0 upto 5:
>   fill fullcircle scaled 5mm xshifted i*1cm withcolor col;
> endfor;
> 
> % withcolor does not work, »Test« is black
> for i=0 upto 5:
>   label(textext("Test"), (i*1cm,-1cm))  withcolor col;
> endfor;
> 
> % To get a static color I use the following construct
> for i=0 upto 5:
>   label(textext("\color[static]Test"), (i*1cm,-2cm));
> endfor;
> 
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> \useMPgraphic {1}
> \stoptext
> 
> Is it possible to get the metapost construct »withcolor« to work with
> text or do I have to take a different approach?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> Marco

I understood from a much earlier discussion with Hans that "withcolor"
will not be made to work with text, whose color therefore has to be
set with ConTeXt constructs.

Alan
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