From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31022 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \sometxt in staticMPfigure Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:05 +0200 Message-ID: <45195371.6020409@wxs.nl> References: 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 1159287949 25423 80.91.229.2 (26 Sep 2006 16:25:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Sep 26 18:25:37 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 1GSFgZ-0002oF-6D for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1951FC32; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:30 +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 11268-06-3; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD8A1FF15; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C501FF15 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:12 +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 11268-06-2 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:06 +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 6CC361FC32 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 10015 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:21:04 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 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:31022 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > >> test case: >> >> \setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=red] >> \starttext >> red >> \color[green]{green >> \startMPcode >> label(\sometxt{green\color[blue]{blue}green}, origin) >> withcolor red; >> draw fullcircle scaled 1cm xscaled 2; >> \stopMPcode >> green} >> red >> \stoptext >> > > The test case works as you say (2006.09.26 beta). Though I don't > understand why [Note added later: I now understand, see at the > end...]: e.g. why the 'green' text in the \sometxt is green. > Shouldn't the withcolor red trump the \color[green] from ConTeXt? I > take your point about the lack of a color stack in metapost and the > difficulty of getting the metapost and context stacks to interact. > > Here's a shorter example of what I'm confused about. > > \setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=yellow] > \starttext > \startMPcode > label(\sometxt{?red?}, origin) withcolor red; > \stopMPcode > \stoptext > > The label(\sometxt{...}) withcolor red would produce postscript code like > > 1 0 0 setrgbcolor > > 0 0 0 setrgbcolor > > and that would be surrounded by code to set textcolor to yellow. > > Oh, I understand now. The \sometxt{} wraps the ?red? in yellow > setrgbcolor, since that's seen first by ConTeXt, and *then* it's > wrapped by metapost in red setrgcolor, so the red is overridden by the > yellow inside it. > indeed, another option is to replace more of mp's color stuff by context but then we may end up in other problems 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------