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.]
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