James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> Actually, it does not make sense to scale in that way. #3a7 > David> really should be the same as #3333aaaa7777, so that #fff is the > David> same as #ffffffffffff, pure white. > > David> Somebody should tell the X people to do that. > > I beleive I recall this coming up on the xfree lists some years back, > and further beleive that the current codebase of both xfree and xorg > do in fact scale the way David recomends. > > It is likely that only the docs are out of date. > > It is certainly the case that the colours named by xmag(1x) when you > click on a pixel in its window show the replicated pattern, and I tend > to use the #rrggbb convention for specifying colours....
Great! Thanks, I think this is the info we needed. I tried xmag on both solaris2.8 and Fedora Core 3 and indeed it seems that the conversion it uses is Y -> YY (where Y is 8bit). Eli, do you agree to go this way? --dan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel