Re: syntax for the color property

[John L. Clark]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 02:07:56PM -0800, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>       Because you were coding the format by hand, or by some tool 
> OTHER than AbiWord.
> 

>       Why does CSS and XSL do it?

CSS (and to a lesser degree) XSL do it because there is no specified
interface to {X,HT}ML and the associated style sheet languages.  That
is, authors are completely free to edit the code by hand.  In my mind,
however, AbiWord documents are by definition interface based; it even
specifies directly in the file that it shouldn't be modified (and it
really shouldn't, it's easy to break something).  Furthermore, RGB
format is not hard to understand, and is pretty universal across tools.

I think color word support in our Abi export is unnecessary for these
reasons.

        John