[NTG-context] new beta

[Alan BRASLAU]

Note that the || in  tufte does not get handled transparently.

Alan


On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:21:56 +0200
Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I uploaded a beta. The most significant (visible) change is in the
> > way mp handles outlines. Here are some examples:
> >
> > % outlinetext   (text) transformations ;
> > % outlinetext.d (text) (draw options) transformations ;
> > % outlinetext.f (text) (fill options) transformations ;
> > % outlinetext.b (text) (draw options) (fill options)
> > transformations ; % outlinetext.r (text) (fill options) (draw
> > options) transformations ;
> >
> > \starttext
> >
> > \startMPpage
> >
> >     draw outlinetext.b
> >         ("\framed[align=normal]{\input{tufte}}")
> >         (withcolor .5white)
> >         (withcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 1/10)
> >         xsized 10cm ;
> >
> > \stopMPpage
> >
> > \startMPpage
> >
> >     draw outlinetext.r
> >         ("\framed[align=normal]{\input{tufte}}")
> >         (withcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 1/10)
> >         (withcolor .5white)
> >         xsized 10cm ;
> >
> > \stopMPpage
> >
> > \startMPpage
> >
> >     draw outlinetext.d
> >         ("\framed[align=normal]{\input{tufte}}")
> >         (withcolor .5white)
> >         xsized 10cm ;
> >
> > \stopMPpage
> >
> > \startMPpage
> >
> >     picture p ; p := outlinetext.p("PX") ;
> >
> >     for i within p :
> >         draw i withcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 1/10 ;
> >     endfor ;
> >
> > \stopMPpage
> >
> > \stoptext
> 
> Amazing.
> 
> This also makes it easy to "drop a shadow", a simplified version being
> something like:
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \startbuffer
> \framed[align=normal]{\bf\input{tufte}}
> \stopbuffer
> 
> \startMPpage
> 
>     draw outlinetext.b
>         ("\getbuffer")
>         (withcolor .85white)
>         (withcolor .85white withpen pencircle scaled 1)
>         shifted (0.5,-0.5) ;
> 
>     draw outlinetext.f
>         ("\getbuffer")
>         (withcolor .7white)
>         shifted (0.5,-0.5) ;
> 
>     draw outlinetext.b
>         ("\getbuffer")
>         (withcolor yellow)
>         (withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled 1/10);
> 
> \stopMPpage
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> ... but I believe one could now address this*** as well (with some
> extra hacking of shadings):
>     http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/52823/6367
> ;) ;) ;)
> 
> 
> The font previews are also amazing.
> 
> Mojca
> 
> *** Some time ago someone made me a poster on a colourful background
> in Photoshop (background had both black and white elements). He used a
> white font with black outline and gray dropped shadow. I reproduced
> the content in ConTeXt, but I wasn't able to reproduce the nice shadow
> that made the text stand out better and thus more readable. In the
> printing house they asked me why I went from good to worse (ie. from
> PhotoShop to TeX) by "decreasing the visibility" of letters. I assume
> that doing smooth shadow behind the letters should finally be possible
> in ConTeXt now as well. [Alan will probably disagree.]