[NTG-context] Re: PDF, runner, and TikZ patches

[Jim <zlists+context@jdvb.ca>]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 15:20 (+0100), Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 3/16/2024 2:10 PM, Jim wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 01:53 (+0100), Aditya Mahajan wrote:

>>> On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Jim wrote:

>>> > Max (et al),

>>> > were you hoping the ConTeXt distribution would ship its own
>>> > pgfutil-context.def, or were you hoping that someone could convince Henri
>>> > to put the RGB change in?

>>> We can patch some of the definitions of pgfutil-context.def in m-tikz if
>>> really needed, but it would be preferable to first check if tikz
>>> maintainers are willing to merge them upstream.

>> Unfortunately, it seems that the maintainer feels that if we can't deal
>> with cmyk profiles, we shouldn't have cmyk at all.  I don't agree, but
>> that's where it ended.  (I was arguing for plain TeX support at the time in
>> the linked^2 message, but I was able to add the definition for cmyk to my
>> own macro file, so I was able to process examples with cmyk colours.)
> What does the maintainer mean by that ... context

The maintainer's comment was about plain TeX, not context.  Sorry if that
wasn't clear.

In any case, I should have sent my request to Max alone, rather than the
ntg-context list, because if Max was going to push something there, I was
hoping that a second appeal for cmyk colour support in plain would be
nice.  (I'm not quite ready to give up all of my plain TeX files.)

> can add profiles if configured to do so (best not to embed them) ... and
> why should there be a profile anyway ... crappy arguments ..

I agree about the colour profile, but the last time I poked that bear, my
pleas fell on deaf ears.

[And in summary, to be clear: I'm good with the colour support in ConTeXt!]

                                Jim
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl
webpage  : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror)
archive  : https://github.com/contextgarden/context
wiki     : https://wiki.contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________