Hi Everybody, If I remember right colors can be defined in ConTeXt, right? So why not just redefine black! If this is stupid, the defaults get initialize before a redefined occurs! forget it! Just a stupid simplistic idea! regards Keith. Am 27.01.2014 um 12:10 schrieb Hans Hagen :

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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