Strange things with colours...

Hi, this is my first posting so please be gentle :-)

I am finding prosper to be somewhat confusing sometimes. My experience
with LaTeX is somewhat limited in the sense that I most often have
stayed within the defined styles and classes. Now, however I'd like to
define my own prosper style.

I would like to have white text on blue background, but find myself
having a mix of black and white text on blue...

I've put the following in PPRmystyle.sty:

  \ifcolorBG
    \FontTitle{%
      \usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{18pt}\selectfont\white}{%
      \usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{18pt}\selectfont\white}
    \FontSubtitle{%
      \white}{%
      \white}
    \FontText{%
      \usefont{T1}{phv}{m}{n}\fontsize{12.4pt}{12pt}\selectfont\white}{%
      \usefont{T1}{phv}{m}{n}\fontsize{12.4pt}{12pt}\selectfont\white}
  \else
    \FontTitle{%
      \usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{18pt}\selectfont\black}{%
      \usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{18pt}\selectfont\black}
    \FontSubtitle{%
      \black}{%
      \black}
    \FontText{%
      \usefont{T1}{phv}{m}{n}\fontsize{12.4pt}{12pt}\selectfont\black}{%
      \usefont{T1}{phv}{m}{n}\fontsize{12.4pt}{12pt}\selectfont\black}
  \fi

The top of pres.tex looks like this:

  \documentclass[mystyle,total,slideColor,colorBG]{prosper}
  
  \title{My Title}
  \subtitle{My subtitle}
  \author{Magnus Therning}
  \email{[email protected]}
  \institution{Where I work}
  
  \begin{document}
  
  \maketitle

This gives me the following on the title page:

 title - black
 subtitle - white
 author, email, institution - black

Putting \white in front of author, institution, and email works fine,
but '\tite{\white My Title} continues to give me a black title!

I also noticed that the items in lists are in black rather than white:

  \begin{slide}{Slide one}
  \begin{description}
  \item[in white] in black
  \item[in white] in black
  \end{description}
  \end{slide}

(The same goes for itemize and enumerate, where bullets and numbers are
white and the text black.)

What variables control the font colors?

/M

-- 
Magnus Therning                    (OpenPGP: 0x6A83A7DF)
[email protected]
http://members.chello.nl/m.therning/

I'm convinced anybody who thinks RPM is A Good Thing really should
reconsider how much crack they smoke in a day.  8:o)
     -- Paul Johnson (in a post to debian-user)

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