On 3/2/2021 5:51 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
Hi All,
Is it possible to get the fill colour in lmt_outline[] to be shaded between two colours like in the lmt_shade[] command? It would be a nice effect for large letters or words.
Sometimes the impossible is possible (see effects-001 in test suite)
% see discussion on this list with/by Garulfo
\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) ;
for i within tt : nofill pathpart i; endfor ;
eofill bb withcolor "darkgreen" ; % you need to specify your background clip currentpicture to bb ; \stopMPpage
I think I should add that to the metafun manual.
Hans
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