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Hi, the following does not seem to use color. Am I missing something? Never used this feature before... I use mkiv with luatex 0.36. \startMPcode draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) withcolor blue; \stopMPcode \stoptext Thanks, Eythan
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Am 27.03.2009 um 13:37 schrieb Eythan Weg:
Hi, the following does not seem to use color. Am I missing something? Never used this feature before...
I use mkiv with luatex 0.36.
\startMPcode draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) withcolor blue;
label(\textext{\red RED},origin) ; Wolfgang
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2009/3/27 Wolfgang Schuster
Am 27.03.2009 um 13:37 schrieb Eythan Weg:
Hi, the following does not seem to use color. Am
I missing something? Never used this feature before...
I use mkiv with luatex 0.36.
\startMPcode draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) withcolor blue;
label(\textext{\red RED},origin) ;
gives: Undefined control sequence. <argument> label(\textext {\red RED},origin) ; \processMPgraphic ...zations ;\theMPrandomseed ;#1 ;\!!es , \@EA \@EA \@EA \!... l.7 \stopMPcode but label(\sometxt{\blue RED},origin) ; works here Greetings Lutz
Wolfgang
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On Mar 27, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Lutz Haseloff wrote:
2009/3/27 Wolfgang Schuster
Am 27.03.2009 um 13:37 schrieb Eythan Weg:
Hi, the following does not seem to use color. Am I missing something? Never used this feature before...
I use mkiv with luatex 0.36.
\startMPcode draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) withcolor blue;
label(\textext{\red RED},origin) ; gives:
Undefined control sequence. <argument> label(\textext {\red RED},origin) ; \processMPgraphic ...zations ;\theMPrandomseed ;#1 ;\!!es , \@EA \@EA \@EA \!... l.7 \stopMPcode
I think what Wolfgang meant was label(textext("\red RED"), origin) Thomas
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Wolfgang Schuster
Hi, the following does not seem to use color. Am I missing something? Never used this feature before...
I use mkiv with luatex 0.36.
\startMPcode draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) withcolor blue;
label(\textext{\red RED},origin) ; Wolfgang Basically, you moved it to TeX to do the coloring, which is ok. Now, "draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) scaled 2;" works. In the same manner , I think, "withcolor" should work. At least this is my understanding of the manual. But instead it is silently ignored. So my question is whether it is a bug or not. This may not be a context's issue but a metapost's itself. Thanks, Eythan
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Am 27.03.2009 um 17:43 schrieb Eythan Weg:
Basically, you moved it to TeX to do the coloring, which is ok.
Metapost in MkIV is different from MkII and all labels are typeset and colored in TeX, if you want a label use textext(...). My \textext{...} (which is only defined in MkII) is just a TeX wrapper and converts \textext{\blue RED} in textext("\blue RED") and in MkIV btex ... etex is converted in textext(...) too.
Now, "draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) scaled 2;" works. In the same manner , I think, "withcolor" should work. At least this is my understanding of the manual. But instead it is silently ignored. So my question is whether it is a bug or not.
What's written in the manual should work in MkII but a lot of things are handled in a different like colors. Wolfgang
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Eythan Weg wrote:
Wolfgang Schuster
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:45:42 +0100 Am 27.03.2009 um 13:37 schrieb Eythan Weg:
Hi, the following does not seem to use color. Am I missing something? Never used this feature before...
I use mkiv with luatex 0.36.
\startMPcode draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) withcolor blue;
label(\textext{\red RED},origin) ;
Wolfgang
Basically, you moved it to TeX to do the coloring, which is ok.
Now, "draw thelabel(btex RED etex, (0,0)) scaled 2;" works. In the same manner , I think, "withcolor" should work. At least this is my understanding of the manual. But instead it is silently ignored. So my question is whether it is a bug or not.
This may not be a context's issue but a metapost's itself.
indeed tex does the coloring; also honoring mp's colors has been discussed on this list but fo rthe moment will nto be supported as it will complicate the code; maybe when i have redone the backend and when multiple pre/postscripts are supported (on the mplib agenda) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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