On Thursday 31 July 2003 4:01 pm, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > Store the R,G,B triple... > > Excuse me? That's a no-no for LyX. Visual instead of logical mark-up > > :-(
Don't be ridiculous! The logical mark-up is that you are saying that branch <branch-name> is to be displayed in such and such away. It is nothing more than a style-sheet for a branch. Thereafter, in the document, the user will specify branch <branch-name> and the thing will display as specified in the 'style sheet'. > I say, call it 'red', and allow the configurer (in Preferences) to > creatively interpret 'redness' in terms of a triplet R, G and B that > works as a background for his or her text (which, as you said earlier, > may well be white on a dark background, calling for a dark 'red'...) And I say that branches are document-specific and that preferences need know nothing about them. Define how the branch is to be displayed at the top of the document and then get on and use it. > You may object to this, but I see 'redness' in this sense as a (quasi-) > logical property, the rendering of which can left somewhat free. > 255,0,0 does not have that freedom. Like 'noun' vs. 'smallcaps' or > 'emph' vs. 'italic'. Well, this concept of 'redness' is entirely artificial. The concept is 'colour of branch <branch name>'. > PS the 'political' problem to be decided upon now wrt. Branches is the > extension to the document format that it implies. *Not* the actual code > or implementation; that can change. Bugs will be found and fixed, code > cleaned up and the UI polished. But the doc format will be with us, so > *that's the decision to take* and the no. 1 issue to address in > discussing acceptance of my patch. > (which could become > > --- > \branch Russian > \selected 0 - \color red + \color 1,0,0 > \end_branch So swap your arbitrary 'red' for something specifiable by the user and I agree with the rest entirely. Angus
