Re: [NTG-context] Change the default text colour for entire document

27 Jan 2014

      On 1/27/2014 12:24 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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Am 22.01.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Thangalin :
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Hi,
In ConTeXt to change the default text colour for the entire document,
there are at least two settings that need to be configured:
\setupcolors[textcolor=red]
  \setupinmargin[line=13,color=red,style=slanted,]
The border colour for tables remains black:
\setupcolors[textcolor=red]
\setupinmargin[color=red]
\starttext
{\bTABLE
\bTR \bTD One \eTD \bTD Two \eTD \eTR
\eTABLE}
\stoptext
How can you override *all* instances of black? (Ideally there would be
a single setting that is inherited by all.) That is, it is difficult
to know all the various aspects of a ConTeXt document that use the
default black colour -- margins, body text, table borders, and
possibly more that I don't know about.
Notes (local notes excluded because they use a different placement system)
and margin texts ignore the global text color because both mechanism reset
colors and many other settings to avoid unwanted output from local changes
in the main text etc.
Even though there is a comment about this problem for margin notes in
the source it wasn’t fixed yet but I think it makes sense to to so.
\appendtoks
     \inheritmaintextcolor
\to \everybeforenoteinsert

\appendtoks
     \inheritmaintextcolor
\to \everymargindatacontent

could work, but it needs testing as we cannot predict side effects
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The problem with the black frames for natural tables are a result of the explicit
framecolor setup for it (I guess to avoid problems when you use metapost
backgrounds which use the framecolor value). A possible way to fix this is to
add a framecolor setup to \setupcolors which argument is now used as default
color for the frame of natural tables, this way can use this color also in other
commands (core functions as well as third party modules) to set a default value.
needs some thinking

\setupTABLE
   [framecolor=\maintextcolor]

some settings date from mkii times but again we need to think of side 
effects

Hans

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