From: Keith McKay <mckaymeister@gmail.com>
To: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Shaded large letters in LMTX
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 18:59:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd0b6975-ffee-c214-ca80-e0a75ab6bcf5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79d90880-a512-41c3-8195-bd2a61c8326f@xs4all.nl>
Wow! Just what I envisaged. Thank you so much!
Best Wishes
Keith
On 02/03/2021 17:47, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/2/2021 5:51 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is it possible to get the fill colour in lmt_outline[] to be shaded
>> between two colours like in the lmt_shade[] command? It would be a
>> nice effect for large letters or words.
> Sometimes the impossible is possible (see effects-001 in test suite)
>
> % see discussion on this list with/by Garulfo
>
> \startMPpage
> picture tt ; tt := lmt_outline [
> kind = "fillup",
> text = "\definedfont[name:texgyrepagellabold*default]foo f o o",
> ] xsized 12cm ;
>
> path bb ; bb := boundingbox tt ;
>
> path pp ; pp := bb enlarged 2cm ;
>
> fill pp
> withshademethod "linear"
> withshadedirection down
> withshadecolors (red, blue) ;
>
> for i within tt :
> nofill pathpart i;
> endfor ;
>
> eofill bb withcolor "darkgreen" ; % you need to specify your
> background
> clip currentpicture to bb ;
> \stopMPpage
>
> I think I should add that to the metafun manual.
>
> Hans
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-02 16:51 Keith McKay
2021-03-02 17:47 ` Hans Hagen
2021-03-02 18:59 ` Keith McKay [this message]
2021-03-02 21:01 Garulfo
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