Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I do not think it belongs to font, > > With other wordprocessors you can highlight text with a different > background. Isn't that something that we want to support?
First, I am not sure at all that there is a proper stable package for doing that in LaTeX (colors are horrible in LaTeX because they are done through \specials in the dvi/pdf). Uwe probably knows. Second, I do not see anything common between your desire of painting nicely and the support for this new feature. We already suffer from the merging of two different concepts (GUI color and LaTeX-level color). There is no need to add to this confusion. >> but the Painter could have a >> backgroundColor member that is updated by the painting code. > > That is also possible but I am not sure it will work for selection. Why? The row painter (or whatever takes its place) knows what is the proper background color (with or without selection), it can pass this information around. JMarc
