[texhax] Coloured text with plain TeX

[Rodolfo Medina]

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Hartmut Henkel [mailto:hartmut_henkel at gmx.de]
Inviato: domenica 29 febbraio 2004 14.39
A: Rodolfo Medina
Cc: texhax at tug.org
Oggetto: Re: [texhax] Coloured text with plain TeX


On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> How is it possible to get multi coloured text in the output file,
> using plain TeX, in text mode and also in math mode?

Actually it's easy:

\input color.tex \textcolor{red}{Hi} \bye

Then: tex -> dvips

Regards, Hartmut


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Thanks a lot, it worked perfectly.

But my final purpose was to insert some coloured text inside Metapost
labels.
And it didn't work.
I tried to follow exactly what is said on page 21 of John Hobby's Metapost
manual:
my metapost input file looks something like this:



verbatimtex \input color.tex etex

beginfig(1);
  .
  .

label(btex \textcolor{red}{Hi} etex,z2);
  .
  .



No complain, no error message;
but in the .ps file there's `Hi' normally black. What can I do?

Thanks indeed,
Rodolfo