Using \MPcolor does it for me. Thank you very much, Aditya :)

Jairo :)

El jue., 13 de ago. de 2020 a la(s) 18:47, Aditya Mahajan (adityam@umich.edu)
escribió:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
>
> > Hi, list! I have two questions concerning MetaFun:
> >
> > 1st:
> >
> > What is the correct way to pass a ConTeXt named color (e.g. xwi's
> "maroon")
> > to MetaFun. Using (with \usecolors[xwi] loaded in the preamble):
> >
> > withcolor maroon
> >
> > does not work.
>
> You need:
>
>     withcolor \MPcolor{maroon}
>
> or (note the quotes)
>
>     withcolor "maroon"
>
> > 2nd:
> >
> > I was trying to do some stuff for my girlfriend using ConTeXt and I tried
> > to randomize colors in MetaFun using normaldeviate. However, something
> > interesting happens. The following:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > changes the color of every letter. I don't complain (in fact it does look
> > better), but I still have a question: what should I do if I wanted to
> > select a random color first and then use it for the entire content?
> Thanks
> > in advance.
>
>
> newcolor randomcolor;
> randomcolor := (normaldeviate, normaldeviate, normaldeviate);
>
> .... withcolor randomcolor;
>
> Aditya
>
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