Change the default text colour for entire document

Change the default text colour for entire document

[Thangalin]

Hi,

In ConTeXt to change the default text colour for the entire document,
there are at least two settings that need to be configured:

  \setupcolors[textcolor=red]
  \setupinmargin[line=13,color=red,style=slanted,]

The border colour for tables remains black:

\setupcolors[textcolor=red]
\setupinmargin[color=red]

\starttext
{\bTABLE
\bTR \bTD One \eTD \bTD Two \eTD \eTR
\eTABLE}
\stoptext

How can you override *all* instances of black? (Ideally there would be
a single setting that is inherited by all.) That is, it is difficult
to know all the various aspects of a ConTeXt document that use the
default black colour -- margins, body text, table borders, and
possibly more that I don't know about.

Thank you!
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Re: Change the default text colour for entire document

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 22.01.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> In ConTeXt to change the default text colour for the entire document,
> there are at least two settings that need to be configured:
> 
>  \setupcolors[textcolor=red]
>  \setupinmargin[line=13,color=red,style=slanted,]
> 
> The border colour for tables remains black:
> 
> \setupcolors[textcolor=red]
> \setupinmargin[color=red]
> 
> \starttext
> {\bTABLE
> \bTR \bTD One \eTD \bTD Two \eTD \eTR
> \eTABLE}
> \stoptext
> 
> How can you override *all* instances of black? (Ideally there would be
> a single setting that is inherited by all.) That is, it is difficult
> to know all the various aspects of a ConTeXt document that use the
> default black colour -- margins, body text, table borders, and
> possibly more that I don't know about.

Notes (local notes excluded because they use a different placement system)
and margin texts ignore the global text color because both mechanism reset
colors and many other settings to avoid unwanted output from local changes
in the main text etc.

Even though there is a comment about this problem for margin notes in
the source it wasn’t fixed yet but I think it makes sense to to so.


The problem with the black frames for natural tables are a result of the explicit
framecolor setup for it (I guess to avoid problems when you use metapost
backgrounds which use the framecolor value). A possible way to fix this is to
add a framecolor setup to \setupcolors which argument is now used as default
color for the frame of natural tables, this way can use this color also in other
commands (core functions as well as third party modules) to set a default value.

Wolfgang
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Re: Change the default text colour for entire document

[Hans Hagen]

On 1/27/2014 12:24 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 22.01.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In ConTeXt to change the default text colour for the entire document,
>> there are at least two settings that need to be configured:
>>
>>   \setupcolors[textcolor=red]
>>   \setupinmargin[line=13,color=red,style=slanted,]
>>
>> The border colour for tables remains black:
>>
>> \setupcolors[textcolor=red]
>> \setupinmargin[color=red]
>>
>> \starttext
>> {\bTABLE
>> \bTR \bTD One \eTD \bTD Two \eTD \eTR
>> \eTABLE}
>> \stoptext
>>
>> How can you override *all* instances of black? (Ideally there would be
>> a single setting that is inherited by all.) That is, it is difficult
>> to know all the various aspects of a ConTeXt document that use the
>> default black colour -- margins, body text, table borders, and
>> possibly more that I don't know about.
>
> Notes (local notes excluded because they use a different placement system)
> and margin texts ignore the global text color because both mechanism reset
> colors and many other settings to avoid unwanted output from local changes
> in the main text etc.
>
> Even though there is a comment about this problem for margin notes in
> the source it wasn’t fixed yet but I think it makes sense to to so.

\appendtoks
     \inheritmaintextcolor
\to \everybeforenoteinsert

\appendtoks
     \inheritmaintextcolor
\to \everymargindatacontent

could work, but it needs testing as we cannot predict side effects

> The problem with the black frames for natural tables are a result of the explicit
> framecolor setup for it (I guess to avoid problems when you use metapost
> backgrounds which use the framecolor value). A possible way to fix this is to
> add a framecolor setup to \setupcolors which argument is now used as default
> color for the frame of natural tables, this way can use this color also in other
> commands (core functions as well as third party modules) to set a default value.

needs some thinking

\setupTABLE
   [framecolor=\maintextcolor]

some settings date from mkii times but again we need to think of side 
effects

Hans

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Re: Change the default text colour for entire document

[Keith J. Schultz]

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Hi Everybody,

If I remember right colors can be defined in ConTeXt, right?

So why not just redefine black!

If this is stupid, the defaults get initialize before a redefined occurs!

forget it!

Just a stupid simplistic idea!

regards
	Keith.
 
Am 27.01.2014 um 12:10 schrieb Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:

> On 1/27/2014 12:24 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> 
>> Am 22.01.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> In ConTeXt to change the default text colour for the entire document,
>>> there are at least two settings that need to be configured:
>>> 
>>>  \setupcolors[textcolor=red]
>>>  \setupinmargin[line=13,color=red,style=slanted,]
>>> 
>>> The border colour for tables remains black:
>>> 
>>> \setupcolors[textcolor=red]
>>> \setupinmargin[color=red]
>>> 
>>> \starttext
>>> {\bTABLE
>>> \bTR \bTD One \eTD \bTD Two \eTD \eTR
>>> \eTABLE}
>>> \stoptext
>>> 
>>> How can you override *all* instances of black? (Ideally there would be
>>> a single setting that is inherited by all.) That is, it is difficult
>>> to know all the various aspects of a ConTeXt document that use the
>>> default black colour -- margins, body text, table borders, and
>>> possibly more that I don't know about.
>> 
>> Notes (local notes excluded because they use a different placement system)
>> and margin texts ignore the global text color because both mechanism reset
>> colors and many other settings to avoid unwanted output from local changes
>> in the main text etc.
>> 
>> Even though there is a comment about this problem for margin notes in
>> the source it wasn’t fixed yet but I think it makes sense to to so.
> 
> \appendtoks
>    \inheritmaintextcolor
> \to \everybeforenoteinsert
> 
> \appendtoks
>    \inheritmaintextcolor
> \to \everymargindatacontent
> 
> could work, but it needs testing as we cannot predict side effects
> 
>> The problem with the black frames for natural tables are a result of the explicit
>> framecolor setup for it (I guess to avoid problems when you use metapost
>> backgrounds which use the framecolor value). A possible way to fix this is to
>> add a framecolor setup to \setupcolors which argument is now used as default
>> color for the frame of natural tables, this way can use this color also in other
>> commands (core functions as well as third party modules) to set a default value.
> 
> needs some thinking
> 
> \setupTABLE
>  [framecolor=\maintextcolor]
> 
> some settings date from mkii times but again we need to think of side effects
> 
> Hans
> 
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Re: Change the default text colour for entire document

[Thangalin]

Keith: that was a brilliantly clever idea.

I will write up a wiki page on this if someone can tell me where
*every independent occurrence of black* could possibly appear (e.g.,
margins, footnotes, page numbers, table borders, etc.) and how to set
each to a different colour.

Not having a single inherited colour means knowledge of where all
black references are used should be captured. I much prefer Hans'
suggestion of defining \inheritmaintextcolor and using that
everywhere: it is quite clean.

Thank you!
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