On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Laurent Siebenmann wrote: > There is a fairly **efficient** 'hack' solution based on the idea that > the "size" of a font declaration can be understood by a dvi-driver > to (in certain cases) force the color of the font. Since almost > nobody is going to hack a driver for this purpose, one would probably > implement this idea by dvi post-processing. Not hard. No new fonts > needed, just some slightly weird font declarations. > Yes, colour is an attribute of the font and therefore it should be handled as such. But why use the size of a font for this? Switching the colour of a font is logically the same as switching to another font. A font change is efficiently handled by TeX and needs no hack at all, and for a coloured version of a font a virtual font could be used. -- Peter Schmitt [log in to unmask]