From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43663 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Johan Sandblom" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \framed[backgroundcolor=x] might imply \framed[background=color] Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:33:46 +0200 Message-ID: <97a06f070809021233i2657dba0s8aa445a05848e37b@mail.gmail.com> References: <97a06f070809020227v53632090u3253c252359a1c42@mail.gmail.com> <48BD69C2.5090708@gmx.net> <48BD76F2.5080108@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220384145 29266 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2008 19:35:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:35:45 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Sep 02 21:36:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kabfh-0002Wo-E3 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:36:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93D71FDEB; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:35:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21934-01-25; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:34:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B006C1FD8C; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:34:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E1F1FD8C for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:34:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25144-01-14 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:33:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.155]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F5E1FD5E for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:33:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 3so1152192yxi.74 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.133.18 with SMTP id g18mr10998124ybd.188.1220384026137; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.65.155.12 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:33:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48BD76F2.5080108@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:43663 Archived-At: So perhaps as expected it turns out that the limitation was only in my imagination. Thanks for the responses. Johan 2008/9/2 Hans Hagen : > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Johan Sandblom schrieb: >>> What would be the drawback of allowing >>> >>> backgroundcolor=n imply background=color >>> >>> and >>> >>> backgroundscreen=x imply background=screen >>> >>> in the setup to \framed. Background compatibility should not be an >>> issue and I am failing to imagine cases where it would not be >>> desirable. >>> >> The background parameter is not fixed to 'color' or 'screen'. You can >> use any type of overlay background (which itself can use the parameter >> backgroundcolor). So the usage of 'backgroundcolor' doesn't always imply >> 'screen=color'. At least not in my macros.. :) > > is anyone using screen? deep down it's already mapped onto color anyway > (the color mechanism will reduce colors anyway) .. if not, we might as > well remove it from mkiv > > Hans > > ps. it dates from the time where not all printers could print gray areas > and fallbacks were needed (fakes, real old code often) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________