Re: rfc: basic color support

[Erlend Aasland]

Hi

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:38:41 +0100 (CET), Juergen Reuter
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> Another issue that I raised in the past is, that setting the color on the
> Grob level is a good starting point, but in many cases not sufficient
> (e.g. when having multi-colored lines as around 10th century, or in some
> contemporary educational works, where noteheads are colored depending on
> their pitch). 
Ok, but a simple \applyoutput-function could take care of that, right?

> Instead of a single color property, some grobs may require
> a more detailed description (e.g. for the StaffSymbol grob, a
> per-staffline list of colors (or maybe even a scheme function that maps
> the staffline number to a color tuple?)).
Good point...

> In some cases, you also want to set a color for a bunch of grobs
> simultaneously (e.g. typically you won't change the color for solely the
> beams, but also for flags and stems).  But for common such cases, we could
> provide macros that set the color for all relevant grobs, I guess.
Yes, I think macros for those things is sufficient.

> 
> Greetings,
> Jürgen
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