From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30047 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: metafun & \sometxt: should black be "black" or "textcolor"? Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:48:14 +0200 Message-ID: <44D6639E.9030800@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00608051932ie703df0j94c670536a0f156f@mail.gmail.com> <44D5ADBE.3010809@elvenkind.com> <6faad9f00608060426g7d389fb4k803f2725f02ceef3@mail.gmail.com> <44D5FEBB.8020808@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154900915 11576 80.91.229.2 (6 Aug 2006 21:48:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Aug 06 23:48:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G9qTy-0006av-0v for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:48:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B374C1FFBC; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:48:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25506-02-3; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:48:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B0911FF5C; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:48:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7201A1FF5C for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:48:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25506-02-2 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:48:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id AE4D81FF32 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:48:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 31759 for ; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:48:16 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <44D5FEBB.8020808@elvenkind.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30047 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Quick fix: You can start your MP code with an explicit color > initialization. > > \startMPcode > special "0 setgray"; > ...... > \stopMPcode > > > A hack, I know. MetaPost should be able to distinguish between > draw p > and > draw p withcolor (0,0,0) > but currently it can't (because the structure is initialized > as (0,0,0)). It is not quite a bug either, because there may > well be MP code out there that depends on this. > In fact, probably code by Knuth, Hobby, Jacko, and Hans ;-) > -) i think that (given that in principle mp produces stand alone ps code) it should start out with black; when embedding as eps or when used as xform in pdf thsi probably is automatically taken care of it makes sense to let mp do that for you; there are a few places where context forces the defaultcolor; we can make it an opion in the mp topdf converter as well Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------