Hans Hagen wrote:
test case:
\setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=red] \starttext red \color[green]{green \startMPcode label(\sometxt{green\color[blue]{blue}green}, origin) withcolor red; draw fullcircle scaled 1cm xscaled 2; \stopMPcode green} red \stoptext
The test case works as you say (2006.09.26 beta). Though I don't understand why [Note added later: I now understand, see at the end...]: e.g. why the 'green' text in the \sometxt is green. Shouldn't the withcolor red trump the \color[green] from ConTeXt? I take your point about the lack of a color stack in metapost and the difficulty of getting the metapost and context stacks to interact. Here's a shorter example of what I'm confused about. \setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=yellow] \starttext \startMPcode label(\sometxt{?red?}, origin) withcolor red; \stopMPcode \stoptext The label(\sometxt{...}) withcolor red would produce postscript code like 1 0 0 setrgbcolor 0 0 0 setrgbcolor and that would be surrounded by code to set textcolor to yellow. Oh, I understand now. The \sometxt{} wraps the ?red? in yellow setrgbcolor, since that's seen first by ConTeXt, and *then* it's wrapped by metapost in red setrgcolor, so the red is overridden by the yellow inside it. -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.