On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:45:13 +0100
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 1/28/2016 1:53 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:33:39 +0100
> > Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> >  
> >>>>> How to make transparent shadings work with the new mechanism?  
> >>>>
> >>>>          withtransparency (1,.5)  
> >>>
> >>> However, this makes the entire shade transparent. How to shade
> >>> from one colour to transparent using withtransparency to achieve
> >>> an effect like in the example below?  
> >>
> >> that isn't how shading works,  
> >
> > …any longer. I just confirmed that it used to work on an older
> > installation. Just sayin'  
> 
> are you sure?

See the attached example. The shade seems to go from black to fully
transparent. So regardless of the background colour the shade looks
fine. I can't replicate this with the new mechanism.

Marco