From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3597 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: another nice new metapost trick: outline fonts Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:01:04 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001215140104.015161c0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <3.0.6.32.20001213072304.0128f1d0@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394325 18454 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:32:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:32:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001214104932.01ad23e0@pop.wxs.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3597 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3597 Hi, After playing a bit with pstoedit i was able to cook up a utility that enables metapost to handle outline fonts; think of: beginfig (1) ; graphictext "\framed[frame=off,width=10cm,align=normal]{\input tufte }" scaled 8 % slanted .2 withdrawcolor blue withfillcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; endfig ; This also works in macros [like textext does] and uses makempy [a simple perl script] to prepare a file suitable for mp. This is a rather generic feature btw. An example can be found at: http://www.pragma-ade.com/pragma-tmp/metafun/outline-1.pdf The other trick, embedded graphics, can be found at: http://www.pragma-ade.com/pragma-tmp/metafun/metajoke.pdf So, now we can make fancy titlepages, Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------