Hi all, I am using some darkgray in my documents, as in \color[darkgray] foo... which was working out well as long as I was processing my documents with the 'context' command. I recently started using 'texexec' instead, as in texexec --pdf definitions-acronyms-and-abbreviations.tex (which, I understand is preferable) and strangely, all of my darkgray text is now rendered black. Any ideas why the command makes a difference and what to do about it? Regards, Malte. PS: Sorry, for one of my previous emails in which I replied to the full daily digest, which resulted in a very long email to everyone. Won't happen again.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:55, Malte Stien wrote:
Hi all,
I am using some darkgray in my documents, as in
\color[darkgray] foo...
which was working out well as long as I was processing my documents with the 'context' command. I recently started using 'texexec' instead, as in
texexec --pdf definitions-acronyms-and-abbreviations.tex
(which, I understand is preferable) and strangely, all of my darkgray text is now rendered black. Any ideas why the command makes a difference and what to do about it?
You can either use ConTeXt MKII (with pdftex, invoked with "texexec") or ConTeXt MKIV (with luatex, invoked with "context"). How old was the manual that you were reading? In MKII you need \setupcolors[state=start] to get the colors working. MKII is not really preferable, except when you are looking for slightly more stability or when you don't need some advanced features. It is more stable, older and uses pdftex instead of luatex. But it also lacks many nice features and bugs from ConTeXt MKIV :). Mojca
Am 17.03.2012 um 09:55 schrieb Malte Stien:
Hi all,
I am using some darkgray in my documents, as in
\color[darkgray] foo...
which was working out well as long as I was processing my documents with the 'context' command. I recently started using 'texexec' instead, as in
texexec --pdf definitions-acronyms-and-abbreviations.tex
(which, I understand is preferable) and strangely, all of my darkgray text is now rendered black. Any ideas why the command makes a difference and what to do about it?
The is a big different between the “context” and the “texexec” commands, with “context” you use MkIV (LuaTeX) to process your document while “texexec” uses MkII (pdfTeX [default] or XeTeX) to produce the PDF. The reason why you don’t get colors is that they are disabled in MkII and you have to enable them first with \setupcolors[state=start] but for MkIV this has changed and colors are now enabled by default. Wolfgang
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