On 8/6/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have any idea about what's going on here? I get blue text, but a black square, although both are supposed to come out black (I wouldn't mind so much, but the problem is that some text is blue and some is black - I have some other testcases where this happens, but I have to create a minimal example first).
use \textext. \sometxt will use the text color, because it never reaches metapost (I assume it would be possible to intercept drawing options like withcolor, but that doesn't happen at the moment).
But the other \sometxt was indeed red - withcolor seems to work, but only conditionally. And I have some weird examples of two texts one after another. In some cases (if something else is drawn inbetween and a color changed twice), then the second text will be black. But it's quite unpredictable (that one might even be bug in my code, so I don't want to complain before I have an example). I while ago I also posted an interesting example with colored table (withcolor colored only some of the cells), but that is alredy a very complex example. And I can't afford to use \textext. It's was too slow (approximately factor 10) and it runs out of TeX memmory after 10 or 12 plots on average. Thanks, Mojca A question for you or Hans: can please someone explain me in a few words what's the main strategy/philosophy behind \sometxt. I don't understand exactly how TeX processes it (and metapost shrinks/expands/shifts/colors) it inline.