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From: Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl>
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Subject: colors in metafont
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:59:25 +0100
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Normally metapost/metafun starts out drawing in black.

Is it possible to change this globally, so that "withcolor xyz" is  
not needed everytime another color is wanted?

Also is it possible to "get/save/restore" the current drawing color  
(a la savepen) in metapost/metafun?

I searched through various manuals but I might have missed the  
reference.

yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer