On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> what is the best method to format MetaPost labels in MkII with \doattributes.
>
> \startMPenvironment[global]
>> \setupcolors[state=start]
>>
>> \def\labelstyle{bold}
>> \def\labelcolor{red}
> \stopMPenvironment
>
> This gives you only bold label.
I try to avoid this.
>> \starttext
>> \startMPcode
>> label(textext("\doattributes{label}{style}{color}{Label}"),origin) ;
>> \stopMPcode
>> \stoptext
>
> Tex colors do not work inside textext. Try
>
> label(textext("\startcolor[red] red \stopcolor"), origin) ;
>
> One way to get around this is to use \sometxt.
>
> label(\sometxt{\doattributes{label}{style}{color}{Label}},(5cm,0)) ;
This helped me.
> But then you have to be careful about the differences between \sometxt in
> MKII and MKIV (which I need to summarize on the wiki).
I use different code for MkII and MkIV and could use the best for each file.
Thanks and regards,
Wolfgang
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