On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, Mohammad Hossein Bateni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Hans said he's in the metapost mode now :)
>
> I have used lmt_outline in the following example and it is really an
> improvement over the previous outline "effect" because one can set the
> fillcolor and drawcolor separately. (that was not possible before, right?)
>
> \starttext
> \definedfont[dejavusansmono*arabic]
> \setupalign[r2l]
> \startMPcode
> draw lmt_outline [
> text = "سلام",
> drawcolor = "red",
> fillcolor = "white",
> kind = "reverse",
> align = "r2l",
> ] scaled 3mm;
> \stopMPcode
> \stoptext
>
> 1. This works well on a plain background. I can specify the background
> color in fillcolor and get the outline effect. When the background is an
> image, this does not work too well. Can we use some clip trickery to allow
> for "transparent" fill? Ideally I want to set the fillcolor to a special
> value that would lead to only the outlines drawn.
Have you seen this example on the wiki which uses nofill:
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cover_Pages#Empty_or_Transparent_letters
Aditya
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