From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How to get randomly coloured text in metapost?
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:27:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTil2T9Y27QAuQahCLtDJETmtyMRdcH-rMlY2dy4c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100511210347.4ba42220@vorbis>
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 21:03, Marco wrote:
>> numeric r, g, b ;
>>
>> r := uniformdeviate 1 ;
>> g := uniformdeviate 1 ;
>> b := uniformdeviate 1 ;
>>
>> textext("\colored[r=" & r & ",g=" & g & ",b=" & b & "]{Test}")
> Thanks for this snipped, Hans. It looks promising, but I get the
> following compile error:
>
> !mplib : mp terminal: >> "\colored [r="
> >> 0.74464
> ! Not implemented: (string)&(known numeric).
> <to be read again>
You need to convert number to string first. Use "decimal(r)" instead
of "r". (But I didn't test.)
Mojca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-11 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-11 15:48 Marco
2010-05-11 16:14 ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-05-11 17:38 ` Marco
2010-05-11 18:06 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-11 19:03 ` Marco
2010-05-11 19:27 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2010-05-11 19:34 ` Marco
2010-05-11 19:40 ` luigi scarso
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