On 2012-05-04 Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 May 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> > But my guess is that the  argument goes into the opposite way. I
> > past (and still in MKII) one *had  to* set up fonts twice - once
> > for the main  document and once for MetaPost  since MetaPost did
> > its own processing of labels and MetaPost didn't see the ConTeXt
> > font setups. So  it was "difficult" to convince  MetaPost to use
> > the same font.

I agree, it's  a big step forward towards  usability and consistency
to have  MetaPost automatically inherit ConTeXts  settings. However,
it went out-of-control now.

> A better alternative would to define
> 
> \setupMPtext
>     [
>      style=...,
>      color=...,
>      setups=...,
>     ]
> 
> that can be used to set the style for metapost text.

+1

Marco


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