On Thu, 13 Aug 2020, Jairo A. del Rio wrote: > Hi, list! I have two questions concerning MetaFun: > > 1st: > > What is the correct way to pass a ConTeXt named color (e.g. xwi's "maroon") > to MetaFun. Using (with \usecolors[xwi] loaded in the preamble): > > withcolor maroon > > does not work.
You need: withcolor \MPcolor{maroon} or (note the quotes) withcolor "maroon" > 2nd: > > I was trying to do some stuff for my girlfriend using ConTeXt and I tried > to randomize colors in MetaFun using normaldeviate. However, something > interesting happens. The following: > > [snip] > > changes the color of every letter. I don't complain (in fact it does look > better), but I still have a question: what should I do if I wanted to > select a random color first and then use it for the entire content? Thanks > in advance. newcolor randomcolor; randomcolor := (normaldeviate, normaldeviate, normaldeviate); .... withcolor randomcolor; Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________