Note that the || in tufte does not get handled transparently.
Alan
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:21:56 +0200
Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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