On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:59:42 -0400
Pavneet Arora
Would anyone have a template on how to create a comic book “Ka-Pow” effect (or something similar) as per:
http://thumb101.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/752857/180152483/stoc...
I would like to use it for one of my slides for my talk at TUG 2016.
\startreusableMPgraphic{star} fill dir(90)--dir(-60)--dir(150)--dir(30)--dir(-120)--cycle xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight scaled 3/4 withcolor \MPcolor{\overlaycolor} ; \stopreusableMPgraphic \defineoverlay [star] [\reuseMPgraphic{star}] \starttext \startframed [frame=off,background=star,backgroundcolor=lightgray,align=text] Wow\\ a star! \stopframed \stoptext You get the idea... (but keep in mind Edward Tufte's Phluff factor). Alan