Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:44:07 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i13Gi381003072 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:44:05 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i13GZriv016944; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:35:54 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C3EA74.F0966580" 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 i13FePLd027136; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:35:36 +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 0217 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:35:35 +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 i13GZZIn028486 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:35:35 +0100 Received: from balan.ap.univie.ac.at (balan.ap.univie.ac.at [131.130.11.51]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i13GZViv016845 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:35:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from balan.ap.univie.ac.at (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balan.ap.univie.ac.at (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i13GZUOY708739 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:35:30 +0100 (CET) Received: (from schmitt@localhost) by balan.ap.univie.ac.at (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id i13GZUkx699216; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:35:30 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <200402030416.i134GF419229@beryl.math.u-psud.fr> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Feb 2004 16:44:07.0882 (UTC) FILETIME=[F11CFAA0:01C3EA74] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 X-Spam-Score: 0 () Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: A job for eTeX. Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:35:30 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: A job for eTeX. Thread-Index: AcPqdPFMuqo5mYL3Q5u9pLf6xaGCsA== From: "Peter Schmitt" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4753 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3EA74.F0966580 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Laurent Siebenmann wrote: > 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. > Yes, colour is an attribute of the font and therefore it should be handled as such. But why use the size of a font for this? Switching the colour of a font is logically the same as switching to another font. A font change is efficiently handled by TeX and needs no hack at all, and for a coloured version of a font a virtual font could be used. -- Peter Schmitt Peter.Schmitt@ap.univie.ac.at ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3EA74.F0966580 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: A job for eTeX.

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Laurent Siebenmann wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, colour is an attribute of the font
     and therefore it should be = handled as such.
But why use the size of a font for this?

Switching the colour of a font is logically
     the same as switching to = another font.
A font change is efficiently handled by TeX and needs = no hack at all,
  and for a coloured version of a font a virtual = font could be used.

--
 Peter = Schmitt           =       Peter.Schmitt@ap.univie.ac.at

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