Keith: that was a brilliantly clever idea. I will write up a wiki page on this if someone can tell me where *every independent occurrence of black* could possibly appear (e.g., margins, footnotes, page numbers, table borders, etc.) and how to set each to a different colour.
Not having a single inherited colour means knowledge of where all black references are used should be captured. I much prefer Hans' suggestion of defining \inheritmaintextcolor and using that everywhere: it is quite clean. Thank you! ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________