Re: what should monochrome option do exactly?

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 02:19:58 pm Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just remembered that implementation of monochrome option in context
> terminal is slightly suboptimal (in standalone mode it lets TeX do
> color conversion into gray scale as "rgb2gray").
> 
> I should probably fix that, but I'm not sure what exactly to do:
> should I simply make all the colors black or should I use different
> shades of gray, and in the second case - which colors exactly?

In my opinion, which may not be universally shared, 
'set term foo monochrome' should cause it to choose a default palette
in shades of grey, and a default set of lines that are not colored.
But it should not prevent the user from drawing explicitly in whatever
color they like, and it should not prevent the user from selecting a
color palette later.

I see it as exactly analagous to "set term foo dashed", which
defaults to dashed lines but does not stop you from explictly
drawing with solid lines instead, or "set term foo font 'blah'",
which doesn't stop you from changing the font later.

	Ethan


> Thank you,
>     Mojca
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