Re: Does anybody use x11-color ?

[Till Rettig]

Graham Percival schrieb:
> Are you referring to x11-color, or normal colors?  If it's x11, I 
> really don't think it's worth keeping them in the docs at all.  If 
> you're curious though, search the mailist archives.  Trevor Baca made 
> a .ly file that demonstrates them all; I think this was approximately 
> two years ago.
>
> > would it be useful to
> > include a colour sample next to the colour name to help the user 
> > chose the
> > right colour? This could just be included from within texinfo (could 
> > it?) if
> > there is something like @colorbox available. I just deduced from 
> > Latex...
>
> Of course this is possible!  Please add a snippet to LSR... although 
> I'd recommend only doing this for color, not x11-color.
Ok, I was thinking just about enhancing the table from the color names 
to show also the colors. I have an example here done with Latex. I have 
no clue how to include it into texinfo, which obviously supports only 
plain tex. So there are no colour. Could it be rendered as a pdflatex 
document and included into the docs at the appropriate place, thus 
replacing the current table? Or do I need to think how to do this thing 
in lilypond? I was also thinking that if doing it that way the X11 
colours would be more useful because one can immediately see how they 
will look. I just didn't find where they get defined inside of lilypond.

Till

\begin{filecontents}
\documentclass{ltxdoc}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{tabularx}%colors are squeezed together without extrarowheight
\newcommand*\ShowColor[2]{\fcolorbox[rgb]{0,0,0}{#1}{\phantom{000}} {#2}}


\begin{document}
according to | scm/output-lib.scm | :

\setlength{\extrarowheight}{2mm}
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{2mm}
address@hidden address@hidden address@hidden }l}
\ShowColor{0,0,0}{black} & \ShowColor{1,1,1}{white} & 
\ShowColor{1,0,0}{red} & \ShowColor{0,1,0}{green} \\
\ShowColor{0,0,1}{blue} & \ShowColor{1,0,1}{cyan} & 
\ShowColor{1,0,1}{magenta} & \ShowColor{1,1,0}{yellow} \\
\ShowColor{0.5,0.5,0.5}{grey} & \ShowColor{0.5,0,0}{darkred} & 
\ShowColor{0,0.5,0}{darkgreen} & \ShowColor{0,0,0.5}{darkblue} \\
\ShowColor{0,0.5,0.5}{darkcyan} & \ShowColor{0.5,0,0.5}{darkmagenta} & 
\ShowColor{0.5,0.5,0}{darkyellow} & \\
\end{tabular}


\end {document}
\end{filecontents}