[metapost] rfc: consistent color values

[L. Nobre G.]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Hans Hagen wrote:

> > That's the actual behaviour. FeatPost wouldn't work without it.
> > The clipping takes place at the moment of using "withcolor", not at
> > output.

> so it's not the actual behaviour since withcolor is not shipout time,
> (one can still store/manipulate the picture); with output i meant
> writing to the *.<digits> file

Correct.

> Boguslaw Jackowski wrote:
>
> > What about controlling this behavior by a variable, say, `truecolors',
> > similarly to the controlling of bounding boxes usin `truecorners'? For
> > example:
> >   truecolors=0 -- current behavior
> >   truecolors=1 -- colors are reduced to teh interval [0,1]
> >                   prior to the shipping the picture to PostScript
> >   truecolors=2 -- actual colors are shipped to PostScript
>
> sounds ok to me, we can misuse 2 to do nasty postprocessing tricks -)

ok to me too, as long as truecolors=0 remains default

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