[metapost] CMYK colors

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Thu Jun 23 06:43:18 CEST 2011



On 06/23/11 00:34, Troy Henderson wrote:
> Is there a reason that when the CMYK colorspace support was added to
> MetaPost that the colors "cyan", "magenta", "yellow", and "key" (or
> "black") were not added as synonyms to (1,0,0,0), (0,1,0,0),
> (0,0,1,0), and (0,0,0,1), respectively?  

Probably because nobody thought about it. But I do not like 'key'
in any case. Does not dvipsnames.sty do something like 'Cyan',
'Magenta', 'Yellow', 'Black' ? That sounds better to me.

Best wishes,
Taco


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