Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 04:47:01 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i133kv81027761 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 04:46:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i133cdSe012766; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 04:38:39 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C3EA08.6190B458" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id i12DhTeL005376; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 04:38:37 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 1414 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 04:38:37 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id i133RaIn014355 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 04:27:36 +0100 Received: from matups.math.u-psud.fr (matups.math.u-psud.fr [129.175.50.4]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i133RXiv025101 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 04:27:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from stats.math.u-psud.fr (beryl.math.u-psud.fr [129.175.54.194]) by matups.math.u-psud.fr (8.12.10/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id i133KTBV018358 ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 04:20:29 +0100 (MET) Received: (from sieben@localhost) by stats.math.u-psud.fr (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.6) id i134GF419229; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 04:16:15 GMT Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Feb 2004 03:47:01.0171 (UTC) FILETIME=[616D8030:01C3EA08] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: 0 () Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: A job for eTeX. Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 05:16:15 +0100 Message-ID: A<200402030416.i134GF419229@beryl.math.u-psud.fr> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: A job for eTeX. Thread-Index: AcPqCGGQA0P2lVQoQMKKBm/Cy5dOFw== From: "Laurent Siebenmann" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4750 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3EA08.6190B458 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable William, David Kastrup wrote: << currently involved with programming a footnote package, I was trying to get a clue about just when to insert \color@begingroup and \color@endgroup >> There is a fairly **efficient** 'hack' solution based on the idea that the "size" of a font declaration can be understood by a dvi-driver to (in certain cases) force the color of the font. Since almost nobody is going to hack a driver for this purpose, one would probably implement this idea by dvi post-processing. Not hard. No new fonts needed, just some slightly weird font declarations. Laurent S. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3EA08.6190B458 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: A job for eTeX.

William,

David Kastrup wrote:

<< currently involved with programming a = footnote package, I was trying
to get a clue about just when to insert = \color@begingroup and
\color@endgroup >>

There is a fairly **efficient** 'hack' solution based = on the idea that
the "size" of a font declaration can be = understood by a dvi-driver
to (in certain cases) force the color of the = font.  Since almost
nobody is going to hack a driver for this purpose, = one would probably
implement this idea by dvi post-processing. Not hard. = No new fonts
needed, just some slightly weird font = declarations.

Laurent S.

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