At 10:03 PM 9/16/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:

> > >Please find below a MP-file that illustrates what i mean.
> > >It compares the macro "uniformfilled" from my article with
> > >your "refill".
> >
> > btw, a real robust solution also takes fonts into account so i'll have a
> > look at that (fontpart and textpart)
>
>you need more since fontpart and textpart do not include the
>transformations applied to the text. But, since i in a
>   for i within a_picture
>is always a picture, text elements can be handled easily with
>addto ... also i ; The test for textual and textpart/fontpart
>is only needed if you really want to work with the text-information.

indeed, but it's a nice exercise to reconstruct the transform matrix -)

actually, i'm playing with font substitutes now, not that useful, but nice 
trickery anyway

>In order to rewrite all text in blue it should be enough to say:
>if textual i:
>   addto tmp_pic also i withcolor blue ;
>fi;

sure, unless tricky color signals are used,

Hans
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