From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: colors in metafont
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:52:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43AE4FCC.2030300@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7B6E5C2C-FD0F-4A09-AA31-81DB04979F07@science.uva.nl>
Hans van der Meer wrote:
> Normally metapost/metafun starts out drawing in black.
>
> Is it possible to change this globally, so that "withcolor xyz" is not
> needed everytime another color is wanted?
>
> Also is it possible to "get/save/restore" the current drawing color (a
> la savepen) in metapost/metafun?
>
> I searched through various manuals but I might have missed the reference.
not precisely, but drawoptions() comes close.
beginfig(1);
drawoptions(withcolor red);
fill unitsquare scaled 20;
drawoptions();
fill unitsquare scaled 10;
endfig;
Cheers, Taco
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2005-12-24 16:59 Hans van der Meer
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