[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: how to apply gradient color to a piece of text?

Am 07.04.24 um 19:05 schrieb Hans Hagen:

\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) ;

    draw tt withcolor green ; \stopMPpage

no need to loop over tt

But the intention was to get a gradient _within_ the text. Might there be a problem with the latest changes to gradients? Hraban