On 5 May 2002 at 16:24, Bill Janssen wrote: > at a dump of the function codes in a text record, every paragraph > starts off with a 5-byte header that sets the foreground color to > black. That seems to be nuts (aside from wasting space). I'm going > to take it out of the parser.
It has been awhile since color support was written in. I specifically remember this issue, what a pain / waste of 5 bytes to reset every paragraph back to black, and having to go back to the parser and write this in. I unfortunately can't think of what that reason was, though my impression is that it had something to do with either jumping into the middle of a document in a search or load. Please feel free though to mod away though, I am sure the implementation can be made more efficient than it currently is (the hash table for color names was a good example of such streamlining). Every image I believe will also have color switches so not drawn a b&w image in red unless specified. If modifying the color in parser, may wish to change that too. A color test page for the different color handling behaviors in Plucker, that may be helpful to you as you mod, is available at: http://www.rob.md/projects/plucker/2001_10_06/color_test.htm and screens of the expected output at: http://www.rob.md/projects/plucker/2001_10_06/index.htm Best wishes, Robert
