Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:43:38 +0200 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: you're one of those people infected by apple software where shades are (of maybe were) the fashion Eye candy, goes in and out of fashion... that's mostly a shade made out of steps (in the pdf one shade operation but not

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/14/2015 11:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Your example uses just two colours, while TikZ uses five and I don't know how to translate this ball shading to MP (I know or at least knew how to do it in plain PostScript and could dig it up; I think it uses function shading with predefined colours

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/15/2015 10:02 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: What is the decimal part (.00128) used for? it's what tikz produces as output ... a rounding error i guess Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6/15/2015 10:02 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: What is the decimal part (.00128) used for? it's what tikz produces as output ... a rounding error i guess Ah, ok, I din't know that you were using the TikZ output. Then it's more likely related

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6/14/2015 11:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Most shades look ugly and useless to me anyway but you have more control than you think (always had but nicer interfaced in mpiv):

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/14/2015 11:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Most shades look ugly and useless to me anyway but you have more control than you think (always had but nicer interfaced in mpiv): \startMPpage fill fullcircle scaled 10cm

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help for either finding a fix or some clever workaround for the following problem. If I use a TikZ picture as item symbol and additionally use background text, then

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
See also: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/54193/how-to-draw-a-shaded-sphere Mojca ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Most shades look ugly and useless to me anyway but you have more control than you think (always had but nicer interfaced in mpiv): \startMPpage fill fullcircle scaled 10cm withshademethod circular withshadevector

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:28:43 +0200 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. But TikZ simply delivers a superior result in this case (= better tuned). Pfluff! Alan ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, I would like to ask for help for either finding a fix or some clever workaround for the following problem. If I use a TikZ picture as item symbol and additionally use background text, then the first symbol in itemize environment gets covered by the background. Here's an example: \usemodule

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-11 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help for either finding a fix or some clever workaround for the following problem. If I use a TikZ picture as item symbol and additionally use background text, then the first symbol in itemize environment gets covered by

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help for either finding a fix or some clever workaround for the following problem. If I use a TikZ picture as item symbol and additionally use background text,

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help for either finding a fix or some clever workaround for the

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-11 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help for either finding a fix or some clever workaround for the following problem. If I use a TikZ picture as item symbol

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/11/2015 10:14 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help for either finding a fix or some clever workaround for the following problem. If I use a TikZ picture as item

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/11/2015 7:27 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help for either finding a fix or some clever workaround for the following problem. If I use a TikZ picture as item symbol and additionally use background text, then the first symbol in itemize environment gets covered by

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6/11/2015 7:27 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: \usemodule [tikz] \definesymbol[1] [{\tikz\shade[shading=ball,ball color=blue] (0,0) circle (.2cm);}] \startreusableMPgraphic{bullet} fill fullcircle scaled (1EmWidth)

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ and wrong drawing order

2015-06-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/12/2015 12:28 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6/11/2015 7:27 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: \usemodule [tikz] \definesymbol[1] [{\tikz\shade[shading=ball,ball color=blue] (0,0) circle (.2cm);}] \startreusableMPgraphic{bullet}