From: Hans van der Meer <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: coloring rules
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:06:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57E7CA33-3240-4E79-9646-3B618BCF4167@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5AFE57.5030905@googlemail.com>
On 23 jan 2010, at 14:49, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 23.01.10 14:32, schrieb Hans van der Meer:
>> Further experimentation has shown that it is not impossible to color
>> \vrule's, thus \blackrule is not specifically needed.
>
> \blackrule is a \vrule which is enclosed in \startcolor/\stopcolor.
>
>> Let me first mention that I put the colored rules away with
>> \setbox\B=\hbox{} and then later call \B up.
>
> Why so complicated?
>
> It is a pity until now I am not able to concoct a
>> minimal example showing consistently the behaviour.
>>
>> However I have made the following observations:
>> define: \definecolor[mycolor][r=myR,g=myG,b=myB]
>
> Have you tried '{\mycolor\vrule <spec>\relax}'?
No, I hadn't, but now I have. And it worked. The simplest solution is
most of the times the best, indeed. Thanks.
>
> Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-23 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-21 16:28 Hans van der Meer
2010-01-21 21:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-01-23 13:32 ` Hans van der Meer
2010-01-23 13:49 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-23 15:06 ` Hans van der Meer [this message]
2010-01-23 18:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-24 13:02 ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-24 13:04 ` Hans Hagen
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