From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: colored labels in mp
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:38:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CD0F32.5070604@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skkydihe.fsf@gmail.com>
Eythan Weg wrote:
> Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:45:42 +0100
>
> Am 27.03.2009 um 13:37 schrieb Eythan Weg:
>
> > Hi, the following does not seem to use color. Am
> > I missing something? Never used this feature
> > before...
> >
> > I use mkiv with luatex 0.36.
> >
> > \startMPcode
> > draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) withcolor blue;
>
> label(\textext{\red RED},origin) ;
>
> Wolfgang
>
> Basically, you moved it to TeX to do the coloring,
> which is ok.
>
> Now, "draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) scaled 2;" works.
> In the same manner , I think,
> "withcolor" should work. At least this is my
> understanding of the manual. But instead it is
> silently ignored. So my question is whether it
> is a bug or not.
>
> This may not be a context's issue but a metapost's itself.
indeed tex does the coloring; also honoring mp's colors has been
discussed on this list but fo rthe moment will nto be supported as it
will complicate the code; maybe when i have redone the backend and when
multiple pre/postscripts are supported (on the mplib agenda)
Hans
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-27 12:37 Eythan Weg
2009-03-27 12:45 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-27 12:58 ` Lutz Haseloff
2009-03-27 13:04 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-27 13:10 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-03-27 16:43 ` Eythan Weg
2009-03-27 17:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-27 17:38 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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