> > 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.
Will work away on it. Probably around end of Sept looking at finished as I
have to work long days for work until Sept 19.
> 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.
That's what I was considering, just a directive for colour, and specifies
what RCB hex colour to change the pen to. The directive for turning colour
off has no attributes: just pops the colour off the stack.
> I guess the major part of the work will be in the parser, i.e. outside
> my "domain" ;-)
Yes, this is almost all parser. Time for me to crack the python manual in
more detail this time. :)
> 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).
Sounds reasonable enough. Will just append to the parser, without switches
for nocolor.
Best wishes,
Robert
