From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Font for MetaPost graphics
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 20:22:47 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1205022020380.4049@qrpragenyvmrq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120503020859.65265f12@Zewz>
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On Thu, 3 May 2012, Marco wrote:
> The wiki claims setting up an MPenvironment is enough to change the
> font in MetaPost graphics:
>
> \startMPenvironment%[global]
> \switchtobodyfont [sans]
> \stopMPenvironment
>
> \starttext
> This should be serif.
>
> \startMPcode
> draw textext("This should be in sans.");
> \stopMPcode
> \stoptext
>
> However, this has no effect. All text is in default serif font. If
> [global] is provided, all text is in sans font. I am aware of a
> similar issue in a thread last year¹, but the solution didn't really
> address the problem. textext("\sans This should be sans.") works
> here, but the point is that the MPenvironment fails. Why is that?
Metapost now runs as a library. All the text is first typeset by ConTeXt
and metapost only knows the bounding box of the labels.
You can try (untested):
\starttext
This is serif
\switchtobodyfont[sans]
\startMPcode
draw textext("This should be sans");
\stopMPcode
\stoptext
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-03 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-03 0:08 Marco
2012-05-03 0:22 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2012-05-03 1:13 ` Marco
2012-05-04 7:10 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-05-04 7:13 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-05-04 11:09 ` Marco
2012-05-05 10:26 ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-05 11:24 ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-05 14:07 ` Marco
2012-05-05 16:03 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-05-08 17:01 ` Marco
2012-05-08 17:08 ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-08 17:19 ` Marco
2012-05-08 17:34 ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-08 19:57 ` Marco
2012-05-10 8:55 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-05-10 9:04 ` Marco
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