Thanks for the pointer, Aditya. I had not seen this, but I couldn't get it to do what I wanted.
I don't fully understand what nofill does and how it interacts with fill and eofill. I get strange results sometimes. One complication, though, is that the picture I get from lmt_outline seems to cover some part (small area around the joining part) twice, so that messes up the even/odd logic of eofill. Here is one of the things I tried: \starttext \definedfont[dejavusansmono*arabic] \setupalign[r2l] \startMPcode picture op; op := lmt_outline [ text = "سلام", kind = "fillup", align = "r2l", ] scaled 6mm; for i within op: nofill pathpart i; endfor; for i within op: eofill pathpart i withpen pencircle scaled 1mm; endfor; \stopMPcode \stoptext On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:09 PM Aditya Mahajan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, Mohammad Hossein Bateni wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Hans said he's in the metapost mode now :) > > > > I have used lmt_outline in the following example and it is really an > > improvement over the previous outline "effect" because one can set the > > fillcolor and drawcolor separately. (that was not possible before, > right?) > > > > \starttext > > \definedfont[dejavusansmono*arabic] > > \setupalign[r2l] > > \startMPcode > > draw lmt_outline [ > > text = "سلام", > > drawcolor = "red", > > fillcolor = "white", > > kind = "reverse", > > align = "r2l", > > ] scaled 3mm; > > \stopMPcode > > \stoptext > > > > 1. This works well on a plain background. I can specify the background > > color in fillcolor and get the outline effect. When the background is an > > image, this does not work too well. Can we use some clip trickery to > allow > > for "transparent" fill? Ideally I want to set the fillcolor to a special > > value that would lead to only the outlines drawn. > > Have you seen this example on the wiki which uses nofill: > > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cover_Pages#Empty_or_Transparent_letters > > > Aditya___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / > 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 > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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