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On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Hi,
I uploaded a beta. The most significant (visible) change is in the way mp handles outlines. Here are some examples:
% outlinetext (text) transformations ; % outlinetext.d (text) (draw options) transformations ; % outlinetext.f (text) (fill options) transformations ; % outlinetext.b (text) (draw options) (fill options) transformations ; % outlinetext.r (text) (fill options) (draw options) transformations ;
\starttext
\startMPpage
draw outlinetext.b ("\framed[align=normal]{\input{tufte}}") (withcolor .5white) (withcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 1/10) xsized 10cm ;
\stopMPpage
\startMPpage
draw outlinetext.r ("\framed[align=normal]{\input{tufte}}") (withcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 1/10) (withcolor .5white) xsized 10cm ;
\stopMPpage
\startMPpage
draw outlinetext.d ("\framed[align=normal]{\input{tufte}}") (withcolor .5white) xsized 10cm ;
\stopMPpage
\startMPpage
picture p ; p := outlinetext.p("PX") ;
for i within p : draw i withcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 1/10 ; endfor ;
\stopMPpage
\stoptext
Amazing. This also makes it easy to "drop a shadow", a simplified version being something like: \starttext \startbuffer \framed[align=normal]{\bf\input{tufte}} \stopbuffer \startMPpage draw outlinetext.b ("\getbuffer") (withcolor .85white) (withcolor .85white withpen pencircle scaled 1) shifted (0.5,-0.5) ; draw outlinetext.f ("\getbuffer") (withcolor .7white) shifted (0.5,-0.5) ; draw outlinetext.b ("\getbuffer") (withcolor yellow) (withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled 1/10); \stopMPpage \stoptext ... but I believe one could now address this*** as well (with some extra hacking of shadings): http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/52823/6367 ;) ;) ;) The font previews are also amazing. Mojca *** Some time ago someone made me a poster on a colourful background in Photoshop (background had both black and white elements). He used a white font with black outline and gray dropped shadow. I reproduced the content in ConTeXt, but I wasn't able to reproduce the nice shadow that made the text stand out better and thus more readable. In the printing house they asked me why I went from good to worse (ie. from PhotoShop to TeX) by "decreasing the visibility" of letters. I assume that doing smooth shadow behind the letters should finally be possible in ConTeXt now as well. [Alan will probably disagree.]