Fine, I made it in a very weird way. I constructed a very strange path to go through the outer path in counter- clockwise direction and inner path in clockwise dir- ection and filled it. I don't feel good but it can be done now.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Zhichu Chen<zhichu.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I got a problem in metapost. If I want to draw a ring, and > use the code: > fill fullcircle scaled 2cm ; > unfill fullcircle scaled 1cm ; > The inner part is not transparent, it has the color of "background" > variable which is "white" by default. > > This case is a minimal example, I actually wanna draw something > more complex, like the glyph "Q" and I know the inner path and > outer path. How can I fill the ring without jeopardizing the area inside > the inner path? > > -- > Best Regards > Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility > No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China > tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com > | www.sinap.ac.cn > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ---------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________