On Mon, Aug 13, 2001, Robert O'Connor wrote:
> I spent some time doing some trial runs on colour support in text documents,
> and the results look pretty sharp.
In that case, continue working on it and add it to CVS (in a branch),
so that we can take a look at it.
How do you intend to include the data about the color? Will you use
three bytes of data (i.e. the RGB value)? The implementation in the
viewer should be quite straightforward, but it should still work just
fine to view a color enabled Plucker document in a "B/W" viewer.
I guess the major part of the work will be in the parser, i.e. outside
my "domain" ;-)
> Optionally: A command line switch in parser, before parsing a document
> telling whether want to do more detailed parsing or fast parsing (or a
> colour switch?).
Will it really add that much extra data that you have to make it
optional? One byte for the "function indicator" (\0), one byte for
the function code, and 3 bytes of data is not that much (and it will
be compressed, too).
I look forward to take a closer look at it when I get back home from
San Francisco in September.
/Mike
