Re: Tikz and \color

[Felix Ingram <f.ingram.lists@gmail.com>]

Excellent. Thanks Hans - that works brilliantly.

However, it's now made me realise that I'm using movesidefloat
incorrectly! (need to float something higher than the start of the
paragraph). Back to the details manual!

Thanks again,

Felix



On 19 September 2011 12:41, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 19-9-2011 13:10, Felix Ingram wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm using Tikz to draw some fancy text boxes, but I've bumped into an
>> annoying problem. If you run the example below then the body text will
>> be rendered in red. If you remove the "REMOVE ME" text, then it will
>> be rendered in black. I would expect the black version to be the
>> correct version but I need to add text to my node.
>
>> Am I using \color correctly? Does anyone know how I might go about
>> debugging this? Is there a way to determine whether it's Context or
>> Tikz that's misbehaving?
>
> Tikz implements it own color handling and that interferes with the handling
> built in context. The following works.
>
> \usemodule[tikz]
>
> \setuphead[section][after={\blackrule[color=red,width=125mm,height=1pt,depth=1pt]\vskip
> 2em}]
>
> \starttext
>
> \section{Some Title}
>
> \dontleavehmode\forcecolorhack
> \starttikzpicture
>    \node{x};
> \stoptikzpicture
>
> Flank sint culpa, dolore dolore ham hock chicken t-bone irure
> pastrami. Eiusmod corned beef sint enim. Corned beef nulla qui aute,
> meatloaf ground round cillum ex. Ut swine pork belly, tongue pig sed
> tail frankfurter biltong ut bresaola anim. Jowl consequat tenderloin,
> meatloaf fatback eu sint duis mollit chuck biltong. Nostrud cupidatat
> nulla meatball, brisket irure dolor. Aliqua chuck ut in, nisi ea
> t-bone shankle bresaola.
>
> \stoptext
>
> We can consider adding some dummy to the tikz wrapper (\char0 will do) so
> that the context color mechanism gets reset before tikz doe some literal
> juggling.
>
> Anyway, when text precedes the picture it will go okay.
>
> Hans
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>                                          Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
>              Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
>    tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
>                                             | www.pragma-pod.nl
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________