From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Setting style and color attributes of label in metapost
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:26:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7BD26617-8194-4E6A-B277-29CED4A09C99@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1109242022560.14346@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Am 25.09.2011 um 02:43 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> I am writing a module which uses metapost in the background for drawing. I wanted to create an interface for setting the style and color of metapost labels but using \doset...attributes is not working.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> \definenamespace
> [test]
> [style=yes,
> name=test,
> command=yes,
> setup=yes]
>
> \definetest
> [blue]
> [color=blue, text=Blue]
>
> \definetest
> [two]
> [blue]
> [style=\bold, text=Two]
>
> \starttext
> \edef\currenttest{two}
> \startMPdrawing
> label.lft(\sometxt{\dosettestattributes{style}{color}
> \testparameter{text}}, (0,0)) ;
You can use the old \doattributes command which is expandable.
label.lft(\sometxt{\doattributes{\currenttesthash}{style}{color}{\testparameter{text}}},(0,0)) ;
Wolfgang
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