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From: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Font for MetaPost graphics
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:09:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120504130931.0db32926@Zewz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1205040312190.6831@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>

On 2012-05-04 Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 May 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> > But my guess is that the  argument goes into the opposite way. I
> > past (and still in MKII) one *had  to* set up fonts twice - once
> > for the main  document and once for MetaPost  since MetaPost did
> > its own processing of labels and MetaPost didn't see the ConTeXt
> > font setups. So  it was "difficult" to convince  MetaPost to use
> > the same font.

I agree, it's  a big step forward towards  usability and consistency
to have  MetaPost automatically inherit ConTeXts  settings. However,
it went out-of-control now.

> A better alternative would to define
> 
> \setupMPtext
>     [
>      style=...,
>      color=...,
>      setups=...,
>     ]
> 
> that can be used to set the style for metapost text.

+1

Marco


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-04 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-03  0:08 Marco
2012-05-03  0:22 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-05-03  1:13   ` Marco
2012-05-04  7:10     ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-05-04  7:13       ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-05-04 11:09         ` Marco [this message]
2012-05-05 10:26           ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-05 11:24         ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-05 14:07           ` Marco
2012-05-05 16:03             ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-05-08 17:01           ` Marco
2012-05-08 17:08             ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-08 17:19               ` Marco
2012-05-08 17:34                 ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-08 19:57                   ` Marco
2012-05-10  8:55                     ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-05-10  9:04                       ` Marco

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