[metapost] Re: [metafont] [question about metapost]How to make color text in boxes?

Hartmut Henkel hartmut_henkel at gmx.de
Sun Jan 23 14:58:30 CET 2005


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Laurence Finston wrote:

> Very nice, and thank you.  However, this fails:
>
> beginfig(1);
> dotlabel(btex $A$ etex, origin) withcolor red;
> endfig;
> end;

> I think if it works for `label', it ought to work for `dotlabel', too.

somehow these are not compatible (no idea why), but this does:

beginfig(1);
draw image(dotlabel(btex $A$ etex, origin)) withcolor red;
draw image(label(btex $A$ etex, (10mm,10mm))) withcolor blue;
endfig;
end;

Regards, Hartmut



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