Re: [NTG-context] Metafun textext()

On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:51:50 -0500 Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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Since the beginning of MkIV, colors in metapost labels need to be set at the ConTeXt end (Untested):

T := thelabel(textext("\color[blue]{I'm seeing double}"), origin);

Aditya

I don't believe that this is true, but I am most likely wrong.

Well, I think it was true in the beginning (as I remember a discussion from Mojca on how to handle labels differently in the gnuplot module), but clearly that is not the case now.

Indeed "\blue text" has worked, but 'draw T withcolor blue;' *should* work as well. The processing of textext() has changed recently, it seems.

\startMPcode label(textext("I'm seeing double"),origin) withcolor green ; label(textext("I'm seeing double"),(-1mm,1mm)) withcolor blue ; \stopMPcode

DOES work.

Of course, these are much simplified minimal examples of what I would like to do.

Minimal example to show what is happening: \startbuffer[initialize] picture T; T := textext("Hello"); picture Q; Q := T; \stopbuffer \startbuffer[T] draw T withcolor blue; \stopbuffer \startbuffer[Q] draw Q shifted (-1mm, 1mm) withcolor red; \stopbuffer \startlines Only draw T: \processMPbuffer[initialize,T] Only draw Q: \processMPbuffer[initialize,Q] Draw T & Q : \processMPbuffer[initialize,T,Q] Draw Q & T : \processMPbuffer[initialize,Q,T] \stoplines Aditya