Appearance of ticks and grids with ConTeXt metapost graph module

Appearance of ticks and grids with ConTeXt metapost graph module

[Jean-Philippe Rey]

Dear list,

Thanks to Hans, I am now able to use the ConTeXt graph module with LMTX. However, I noticed that the tick/grid labels are drawn with the same parameters as the tick/grid marks.

For example

   grid.bot("@d", 1) withcolor red;

will draw the grid line AND "1" in red. The original metapost graph module doesn't apply drawing instructions to the label. That seems a better choice as you usually don't want to apply special effect on the labels. If you really want to draw the label with specific parameters you can write, for example,

   grid.bot(image(draw textext(1) withcolor blue;), 1) withcolor red;

and get red lines and blue labels. With the ConTeXt version, both line and label would be red! 

What do you think about reverting to the original metapost behavior? If I am right, here is a patch to do it:

--- mp-grap.mpiv	2021-01-04 18:29:15.000000000 +0100
+++ mp-grap-new.mpiv	2021-01-04 20:47:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@
         if c : graph_xyscale fi
         shifted (((.5 + mfun_laboff@# dotprod (.5,.5)) * mfun_laboff@#) graph_xyscale) ;
     image(draw p w ;
-        label@#(if string f : format(f,u) else : f fi, point 0 of p) w)
+        label@#(if string f : format(f,u) else : f fi, point 0 of p))
   fi
 enddef ;


Thanks for reading this far.

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