Re: Colors in DVI output

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:20 PM 11/6/00 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> At 10:59 PM 11/5/00 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >I'm using ConTeXt on a MiKTeX distribution, and I seem not to be able to
>> >activate the colors in DVI output. I have \setupcolors[state=start], and
>I
>> >get them in PDF mode. Also, colors are there after a dvips, in the ps
>file.
>> >How do I tell ConTeXt to use an alternative (non-ps) color specials
>> >impementation? (possibly one understood by MiKTeX)
>>
>> I suppose that you want to use a dvi viewer? Which one? Since there is no
>> standard on this, you need to load the appropriate special driver
>> [\setupout] but maybe there is no context special driver yet for your
>> viewer. No big deal, but i must know the specific specials then. Some
>> specials, like color, can be run in parallel without problems.
>>
>
>Since I use MiKTeX, my dvi viewer is YaP. It accepts various color special
>formats ---for sure (I used it in latex), it accepts the one issued by the
>dvipdfm option in the color package (the format is something like: "color
>push <values>" and "color pop"

I need the more stupid ones, since I push and pop myself (more robust). Is
there some documentation for yap specials? 

Hans 
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