Re: metafun & \sometxt: should black be "black" or "textcolor"?

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> The "real problem" appears in the following figure where the first
> black is ignored and the second one is not, so it's rather
> inconsistent:

It is not really inconsistent, the rule is very simple:

   all use of "withcolor <black>" upto the first non-zero color
   is ignored by metapost.

> I can image a "fair solution" to draw "withcolor black" in black and
> to let the parts with no explicit color and an empty drawoptions()
> string to use the "default color" (perhaps with gsave/grestore). But
> I'm not entitled to judge about it.

Yes, that's what I thought. But I need to patch metapost for
that, so that solution won't be available in a reliable way
for quite some time yet.

> In any case I'll have to use a solution which will not depend on this
> behaviour. Is there any chance to get "withcolor somecolor", where
> "somecolor" is the color set with "textcolor=somecolor"?

Maybe withcolor \MPcolor{textcolor} ? (I am guessing)

Cheers, Taco