Thanks Hraban. This indeed helped. It‘s my first reply in this mailing list. Hope I do it right by „replying to all“.
> Am 19.11.2023 um 19:37 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm <te...@fiee.net>: > > Am 19.11.23 um 16:41 schrieb Emanuel Han via ntg-context: >> I'd like to surround black text with a white 1mm thick border in a Metapost >> label. Here is my code, which doesn't draw the border at all and which draws >> the text in white instead of black (I'm using mkiv and mkxl version >> 2023.09.26 18:19 on osx-arm6): >> | >> |beginfig(1); >> % Define the text and colors >> string label_text; >> label_text = "Your Text"; >> color text_color, border_color; >> text_color = black; >> border_color = white; >> % Draw the label with the specified colors >> label(textext(label_text) scaled 1.0, origin) withcolor text_color >> withpen pencircle scaled 1mm withcolor border_color; >> endfig;| > > Have a look into luametafun.pdf (p.10) if lmt_outline does what you want. > > Hraban > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
