X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["373" "Mon" "21" "December" "1998" "20:06:26" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "15" "Re: pdf and ps portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20177; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:12:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.A14F7496@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:12:00 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 414326 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:11:53 +0100 Received: from ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.2]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08251 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:11:50 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:06:34 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:06:24 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:06:11 +0100 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:06:26 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13950.39799.140230.241409@fell.] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: pdf and p... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: <13943.35834.346967.222803@srahtz>, , , , <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de>, MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: VM 6.44 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-ID: <13950.39799.140230.241409@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981219084609.00a8fc60@pop.tiac.net> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:06:26 +0100 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: pdf and ps portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3231 Y&Y Inc. wrote -- > > It would be nice if TeX supported color the same way it does fonts also. I assume you here mean "plain colored text". In which case i know what you mean and agree. If you mean more general use of colour: eg continuous shading, etc etc, then I need to know more about the analogy with fonts and how TeX itself could "support" such things. chris