Thanks, Martin! > Actually it is a feature. Patterns are uncoloured now (see PDF > reference for Uncolored tiling patterns) to allow the application of > symbol-color command on patterns. > > Now you need to define just the shape of all symbols in Metapost and > color of any symbol in layout, which is much more flexible. It > wouldn't work for patterns consisting of more than one colour, but > nobody has complained so far.
OK, makes sense (although according to the manual symbol-color is a new command in 5.3, while as far as I can tell, pattern fills have been black-only since 5.2.11). Anyway, the manual specifies: symbol-colo[u]r <point/line/area/group/special> <symbol-type> <colour> so in my test piece I tried: symbol-color area u:test [1.0 0 0] and I get the following error message: unknown symbol specification -- area u:test What am I doing wrong? Duncan
