I can live with the proposed hack by Mikael. Thank you.

I’m still curious if the developers (Hans, …?) agree with me on the need for improvement of the lmt_outline feature. Would be nice to hear a feedback.

Best regards
Emanuel

On 13 Oct 2025, at 13:35, Mikael Sundqvist wrote:

Hi,

Is it an option to draw twice?

\startMPpage[offset=1DK]

draw lmt_outline [
text = "Auflage Zupfinstrument",
kind = "draw", drawcolor = "blue", rulethickness = 4,
    ] scaled 10 ;

draw lmt_outline [
text = "Auflage Zupfinstrument",
kind = "both", fillcolor=white, drawcolor = "white",
    ] scaled 10 ;

\stopMPpage

/Mikael

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM Emanuel Han via ntg-context
<[email protected]> wrote:

Dear list,

it seems that when using lmt_outline and kind=„reverse“, the drawing order is drawcolor of letter one, then fillcolor of letter one, then drawcolor of letter two, then fillcolor of letter two, and so on. The result is that the previous letters are covered by the drawcolor of the following letters, which is not beautiful and makes the text less readable.

I think the correct drawing order should be drawcolor of all letters, then fillcolor of all letters.

Btw ligatures (fl in „Auflage“ and fi in „Zupfinstrument“ in following mwe) are spared from this cumbersome behavior.

I need the desired behavior with Arabic text at the moment, but any script is actually affected.

\mainlanguage[de]
\definefontfeature[default]
[mode=node,liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,
ccmp=yes,language=dflt,
protrusion=quality,
expansion=quality]

\definefontfeature[fea]
 [mode=node,
  language=dflt,
  script=arab,
  init=yes,
  medi=yes,
  fina=yes,
  isol=yes,
  calt=yes,
  rlig=yes,
  tlig=yes,
  trep=yes,
  curs=yes,
  kern=yes,
  mark=yes
]

\starttypescript [serif] [notonaskharabic]
\definefontsynonym [notonaskharabic-Light] [name:notonaskharabic] [features=fea] \definefontsynonym [notonaskharabic-Bold] [name:notonaskharabic] [features=fea] \definefontsynonym [notonaskharabic-Italic] [name:notonaskharabic] [features=fea] \definefontsynonym [notonaskharabic-Bold-Italic] [name:notonaskharabic] [features=fea]
\stoptypescript

\starttypescript [serif] [notonaskharabic]
 \usetypescript[serif][fallback]
\definefontsynonym [Serif] [notonaskharabic-Light] [features=fea] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [notonaskharabic-Italic] [features=fea] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [notonaskharabic-Bold] [features=fea] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [notonaskharabic-Bold-Italic] [features=fea]
\stoptypescript

\starttypescript [notonaskharabic]
\definetypeface [notonaskharabic] [rm] [serif] [notonaskharabic] [default]
\stoptypescript
\usetypescript[notonaskharabic]

\definecolor [transparentgray]  [s=.9,t=.8,a=1]

\starttext

\startMPcode{doublefun}
draw lmt_outline [
text = "Auflage Zupfinstrument {\notonaskharabic \textdir TRT کرن}", kind = "fill", fillcolor = "black", drawcolor = "transparentgray", rulethickness = 4,
    ] xsized TextWidth ;

draw lmt_outline [
text = "Auflage Zupfinstrument {\notonaskharabic \textdir TRT کرن}", kind = "reverse", fillcolor = "blue", drawcolor = "transparentgray", rulethickness = 4,
    ] xsized TextWidth shifted (0,-2cm);

draw lmt_outline [
text = "Auflage Zupfinstrument {\notonaskharabic \textdir TRT کرن}", kind = "reverse", fillcolor = "gray", drawcolor = "blue", rulethickness = 4,
    ] xsized TextWidth shifted (0,-4cm);
\stopMPcode
\stoptext


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