On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 4:15 PM Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de> wrote:

> Am Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:46:57 +0100 schrieb luigi scarso:
>
> >> ====
> >> A palette entry index value of 0xFFFF is a special case indicating
> >> that the text foreground color (defined by a higher-level client)
> >> should be used and shall not be treated as actual index into CPAL
> >> ColorRecord array.
> >> ====
> >>
>
>
> > " the text foreground color (defined by a higher-level client)
> > should be used" doesn't mean   "you  MUST take the current color
> > text" or even "you MUST use black" In fact "defined by a
> > higher-level client" means that  I could define  a palette  such
> > that each glyph marked with 0xFFFF has its own color based on my
> > palette ---  not necessarily the *same* color.
>
> Sounds as if there is some room for interpretation ;-). But assume
> that I want in my example the 0xFFFF to be interpretated as "the
> current text color", so the currently blue glyphs should be black,
> and if I add \color[red] before the text they should be red. Can and
> if yes how this be setup? (Both in context and in generic)
>

no, at this moment is fixed,  but we are discussing just now how to
implement this.


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luigi