On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com>wrote:

> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Peter A. Cejchan <tyapca7@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> do you mean 'graph', or 'chart' ?
> >> ++pac
> >>
> >
> > right now it's mostly charts.
>
> I use these macros for generating color:
>
> .de CL
> \\X'PS \\$1 \\$2 \\$3 setrgbcolor'\\c
> ..
> .de BK
> \\X'PS 0 0 0 setrgbcolor'\\c
> ..
> .de EM
> \\$3\\X'PS 1 0 0 setrgbcolor'\\$1\\X'PS 0 0 0 setrgbcolor'\\$2
> ..
>
> They only work if you generate postscript (you can, of course, turn that
> into pdf as well).
> .CL r g b
> sets the color to the rgb values (0 0 0 being black, 1 1 1 being white,
> 0.5 0.5 0.5 being middle grey)
> .BK
> sets the color to black.
> .EM "string1" "string2" "string3"
> (emphasis), where strings 2 and 3 are optional prints string3 in the
> current
> color, followed by string1 in red and string2 in black (with no space
> between
> strings 3, 1 and 2 — they work as .B or .I in the .ms macro package.
>
>        Sape
>
>
Wow cool it worked. thanks a lot