Hi, at the context meeting it was concluded that there is no reason for mkiv to be fully downward compatible. one thing that i consider removing is the 'background=screen' option from \framed. After all, screens internally already are just grayscales and the old 'method' mechanism is no longer valid given postscript and pdf technologies in practice it means that those who use it (in mkiv) will have to use colors (grayscales) instead (the last time that i used screens myself is sometime last century) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------