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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Combining "outer" effect with filled glyphs
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:52:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <542A7D49.3080001@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsaLwB5k6WzHa_TgBKbjbN_955+v7Zdhsda7YzfFma28tA@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/30/2014 11:45 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to get red text with black outlines.
>
> The magic in ConTeXt that does the outline is
>      \starteffect[outer] Something \stopeffect
> but I would like to combine normal filled glyphs with an outline.
>
> While I'm able to come up with some magic to do this for single lines
> (creating zero width hboxes etc.), I would really like to typeset a
> complete paragraph on a poster.
>
> Is there any magic that would allow me to do that?

\starttext

\startbuffer[test]
     \input tufte
\stopbuffer

\startoverlay
 
{\framed[align=normal,foregroundstyle=\bfd,foregroundcolor=blue]{\starteffect[inner]\getbuffer[test]\stopeffect}}
     {\framed[align=normal,foregroundstyle=\bfd,foregroundcolor=red] 
{\starteffect[outer]\getbuffer[test]\stopeffect}}
\stopoverlay

\stoptext


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      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-30  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30  9:45 Mojca Miklavec
2014-09-30  9:52 ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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