Re: [XeTeX] Colour specials for XeTeX

2020-06-07 Thread Philip Taylor
Ulrike Fischer wrote: (x)dvipdfmx is the successor of dvipdfm and half of the documentation is in the dvipdfm documentation so texdoc dvipdfm texdoc dvipdfmx gives the two part ... Well, thank you for that, Ulrike, but whilst "TeXdoc dvipdfm" sheds additional light on the matter, it /s

Re: [XeTeX] Colour specials for XeTeX

2020-06-07 Thread BPJ
Den sön 7 juni 2020 11:02Philip Taylor skrev: > > > As it turns out, the \special {color push} that > he mentions no longer works, but \special {color push }) does, as > do the other two, yet I cannot find out where their behaviour > is defined other than in the source code. /Surely /they must

Re: [XeTeX] Colour specials for XeTeX

2020-06-07 Thread Philip Taylor
BPJ wrote: Well as everything in a computer program they are defined in the source code. That is the very antithesis of Dijkstra's position on the subject, and I strongly agree with him !  The behaviour / syntax / semantics are described outside of the program — the program is merely one o