Wow, thank you Mojca : pretty impressive ! Would I be right
in guessing that your example is coded in ConTeXt ?
** Phil.
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
\setupbodyfont[gentium,100pt]
\starttext
\bf \newdimen\mywidth
\def\a#1#2{\mywidth=0.07pt\multiply\mywidth by #1%
\defineeffect[a][alternative=outer,rulethickness=\mywidth]\starteffect[a]Thai-An\stopeffect}
\startMPpage
for i=0 upto 100:
draw textext("\a{"& decimal(100-i)& "}{"& decimal(i)&"}") shifted
((100-i)*0.017pt,-(100-i)*0.007pt) withcolor (i/300)[white,black];
endfor;
draw textext("Thai-An") withcolor blue;
\stopMPpage
\stoptext
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