Re: colors in MPgraphic

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

>
>
> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>
>> In MPgrapic I do want my own colors for drawing lines etc.
>> These are set up in plain.mf's ("_op_" and "background").
>> In \startMPinclusions I just do that in order to get the drawing  
>> color I want.
>> But then \startMPgraphic appears to reset colors (both "_op_" and  
>> "background" I suspect).
>
>
> The resetfig() macro from metafun clears "_op_" and "background".
> I don't know why, but there''' be a reason for it, I am sure ;-)

sure -) [i need to think a bit]

>
> There almost certainly is an 'official' way to add some statements to
> the beginning of each figure, but, in any case, it works if you store
> your settings in extra_beginfig:
>
>   \startMPinclusions
>   extra_beginfig := "drawoptions(withcolor green)";
>   \stopMPinclusions

maybe best is to append instead of assign

Hans