On 1/24/2017 4:04 AM, Rik wrote:
On 2017-01-23 14:09, Rik Kabel wrote:
On 2017-01-23 00:06, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 22:39:53 -0500 Rik Kabel > <cont...@rik.users.panix.com> wrote:
> >> So, how can I make the
inner glyph (‘?’ in the example below) >> transparent, so that the
background shows through along with >> anything else that lives on a
lower layer? I’ve seen a method for >> constructed shapes, but nothing
that I can apply to text glyphs. >> Undraw doesn’t do it. > > Undraw
is simply draw using the background color. > > Transparency is a
MetaFun extension to MetaPost (so part of > ConTeXt). > > draw q
withtransparency (1,0.5) ; % (method,transparency) > > Alan
Hmmm. That does not work for me (with any of many method and
transparency values). The ‘?’ is solid black. I do see a message in
the log that looks related:
mkiv lua stats > page group warning: transparencies are used but
no pagecolormodel is set
but adding \setcolors[state=start,cmyk=yes] does not change that; both
the warning and the solid black glyph remain. Could this be an issue
of the PDF viewer? Is it a font issue?
Okay, I got a clean compile using \definecolor and referencing that in
the MP page.
\setupbackgrounds
[page]
[background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow]
\definecolor[Transp][r=1,t=0,a=12]
\definefont
[DVSrB]
[file:DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf]
\startuseMPgraphic{HeartTest 1}
picture h,q ;
h := "♥" infont "\truefontname{DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf}" scaled 20 ;
q := textext("{\DVSrB ?}") scaled 10 ;
q := q shifted - (xpart center q, 12pt) ;
draw h withcolor blue ;
draw q withtransparency(12,0) ;
draw q shifted (72pt,0) withtransparency(12,0) ;
\stopuseMPgraphic
\startuseMPgraphic{HeartTest 2}
picture h,q ;
h := "♥" infont "\truefontname{DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf}" scaled 20 ;
q := textext("\color[Transp]{\DVSrB ?}") scaled 10 ;
q := q shifted - (xpart center q, 12pt) ;
draw h withcolor blue ;
draw q ;
draw q shifted (72pt,0) ;
\stopuseMPgraphic
\starttext
\useMPgraphic{HeartTest 1}
\useMPgraphic{HeartTest 2}
\stoptext
Unfortunately, the result is not what I want. The result is that the “?”
disappears, allowing the color directly behind it to show through. The
example above shows that it works with \definecolor but not
withwithtransparency. I have no idea why, and certainly realize it could
be my error.
What I want is that the background of the page (yellow in this case)
should show through. That is what is done with fill / reverse / cycle,
as in:
\setupbackgrounds
[page]
[background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow]
\startuseMPgraphic{CircleTest}
path p,q ;
p := fullcircle scaled 2cm ;
q := fullcircle scaled 1cm ;
fill p -- reverse q -- cycle withcolor blue;
\stopuseMPgraphic
\starttext
\useMPgraphic{CircleTest}
\stoptext
where the background color (yellow) comes through the inner circle (path q).
Can this be done with text characters? I suspect that the answer is that
the glyphs have to be converted to paths and that it will only work when
\setupbackgrounds
[page]
[background=color,
backgroundcolor=yellow]
\starttext
\startcolor[blue]\starteffect[outer]PQR\stopeffect\stopcolor
\stoptext
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