X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["477" "Mon" "21" "December" "1998" "15:17:49" "-0500" "Y&Y, Inc." "support@YANDY.COM" nil "12" "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 VAA24327; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:18:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.EE88EEFA@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:18:35 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 414351 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:18:16 +0100 Received: from life.ai.mit.edu (life.ai.mit.edu [128.52.32.80]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11608 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:18:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from MAUI (maui.ai.mit.edu [128.52.37.105]) by life.ai.mit.edu (8.9.1/AI2.7/ai.master.life:2.2) with SMTP id PAA16629 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:18:05 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: yandy@tiac.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 References: <4.1.19981219084609.00a8fc60@pop.tiac.net> <13943.35834.346967.222803@srahtz> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <4.1.19981221151631.00acad40@tiac.net> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <13950.39799.140230.241409@fell.open.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:17:49 -0500 From: "Y&Y, Inc." 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: 3232 At 20:06 1998-12-21 +0100, Chris Rowley 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. Yes, that is what I meant. For some other color issues TeX is the wrong tool IMHO. Of course, you can make it do something, but why torture it when there are other tools already for trapping etc. Y&Y, Inc. mailto:support@YandY.com http://www.YandY.com