Note that the || in tufte does not get handled transparently. Alan On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:21:56 +0200 Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Hi,

I uploaded a beta. The most significant (visible) change is in the way mp handles outlines. Here are some examples:

% outlinetext (text) transformations ; % outlinetext.d (text) (draw options) transformations ; % outlinetext.f (text) (fill options) transformations ; % outlinetext.b (text) (draw options) (fill options) transformations ; % outlinetext.r (text) (fill options) (draw options) transformations ;

\starttext

\startMPpage

draw outlinetext.b ("\framed[align=normal]{\input{tufte}}") (withcolor .5white) (withcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 1/10) xsized 10cm ;

\stopMPpage

\startMPpage

draw outlinetext.r ("\framed[align=normal]{\input{tufte}}") (withcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 1/10) (withcolor .5white) xsized 10cm ;

\stopMPpage

\startMPpage

draw outlinetext.d ("\framed[align=normal]{\input{tufte}}") (withcolor .5white) xsized 10cm ;

\stopMPpage

\startMPpage

picture p ; p := outlinetext.p("PX") ;

for i within p : draw i withcolor red withpen pencircle scaled 1/10 ; endfor ;

\stopMPpage

\stoptext

Amazing.

This also makes it easy to "drop a shadow", a simplified version being something like:

\starttext

\startbuffer \framed[align=normal]{\bf\input{tufte}} \stopbuffer

\startMPpage

draw outlinetext.b ("\getbuffer") (withcolor .85white) (withcolor .85white withpen pencircle scaled 1) shifted (0.5,-0.5) ;

draw outlinetext.f ("\getbuffer") (withcolor .7white) shifted (0.5,-0.5) ;

draw outlinetext.b ("\getbuffer") (withcolor yellow) (withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled 1/10);

\stopMPpage

\stoptext

... but I believe one could now address this*** as well (with some extra hacking of shadings): http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/52823/6367 ;) ;) ;)

The font previews are also amazing.

Mojca

*** Some time ago someone made me a poster on a colourful background in Photoshop (background had both black and white elements). He used a white font with black outline and gray dropped shadow. I reproduced the content in ConTeXt, but I wasn't able to reproduce the nice shadow that made the text stand out better and thus more readable. In the printing house they asked me why I went from good to worse (ie. from PhotoShop to TeX) by "decreasing the visibility" of letters. I assume that doing smooth shadow behind the letters should finally be possible in ConTeXt now as well. [Alan will probably disagree.]