@Section @Title { Colour } @Tag { colour } @Begin @PP Colour is obtained in much the same way that fonts and language changes colour. @Index @Code "@Colour" color. @Index @Code "@Color" are, using the @Code "@Colour" (or equivalently {@Code "@Color"}) symbol: @ID @Code "grey @Colour { Hello, world }" produces @ID grey @Colour { Hello, world } The @Code "@Colour" symbol will accept any of the following colours: @QD @HAdjust @Tab vmargin { 0.5vx } hmargin { 0.2c } @Fmta { @Col A @Colour @FilledBox ! @Col @Code A ! @Col ! @Col B @Colour @FilledBox ! @Col @Code B ! @Col ! @Col C @Colour @FilledBox ! @Col @Code C } @Fmtb { @Col A @Colour @FilledBox ! @Col @Code A ! @Col ! @Col B @Colour @FilledBox ! @Col @Code B ! @Col ! @Col ! @Col } { @Rowa A { darkred } B { red } C { lightred } @Rowa A { darkgreen } B { green } C { lightgreen } @Rowa A { darkblue } B { blue } C { lightblue } @Rowa A { darkcyan } B { cyan } C { lightcyan } @Rowa A { darkmagenta } B { magenta } C { lightmagenta } @Rowa A { darkyellow } B { yellow } C { lightyellow } @Rowa A { darkgrey } B { grey } C { lightgrey } @Rowa A { darkgray } B { gray } C { lightgray } @Rowb A { black } B { white } } Monochrome output devices will render them as shades of grey. Colouring something @Code white makes it invisible (unless printed on a coloured background), which is sometimes useful. See Appendix {@NumberOf morecolours} to get many more colour names, using the @Code xrgb include file and its @Code "@Xrgb" symbol. @PP In addition to the list of colours given above, there is a special {@Code nochange} colour which produces whatever colour you already happen to be using; you can also use an empty object to ask for this. And you can get lots more colours by specifying them using numbers, like this: @ID @Code "{ rgb 0.5 0.5 1.0 } @Colour { Hello, world }" which means use red at intensity 0.5, green at intensity 0.5, and blue at intensity 1.0, producing @ID { rgb 0.5 0.5 1.0 } @Colour { Hello, world } In the strange world of colour coordinates, in which 0 is dark and 1 is light, this is a light blue. You can also use the CMYK system: @ID @Code "{ cmyk 0.5 0.5 1.0 1.0 } @Colour { Hello, world }" produces @ID { cmyk 0.5 0.5 1.0 1.0 } @Colour { Hello, world } Wherever in this document it says that that you can use any colour from this section, it means any of the names above, or {@Code nochange}, or an object beginning with @Code "rgb" or @Code "cmyk" as shown. @PP Whether the colours produced by @Code "@Colour" actually correspond with the names depends on the output device; the same nominal colour can look quite different on screen and on paper. @End @Section