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

7 Apr 2024


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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Re: how to apply gradient color to a piece of 
text?
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 19:05:13 +0200
From: Hans Hagen 
To: Keith McKay 

On 4/7/2024 6:56 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
...
Not for me either. I used it somewhere so I'll need to look back in my 
files.
\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


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