Re: TPcolor not activated by pstcol+semcolor

[Laurent sent a reply to me privately - I'm replying on it in the list.]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Laurent MUGNIER wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Hans Nordhaug wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Laurent MUGNIER wrote:
> >
> > > I write color slides by loading seminar + pstcol+semcolor + fixseminar +
> > > texpower (because according to the Seminar FAQ
> > > http://www.tug.org/applications/Seminar/Seminar-FAQ.html loading pstcol and then
> > > semcolor is the right way to get color.sty and pstricks loaded into seminar.)
> > >
> > > Obviously, texpower does not see that the color package is loaded and TPcolor
> > > is false, so texpower does not know the slides are in color )-;.
> >
> > No, no. The reason is that you don't tell texpower to use colors. Use
> > one of the background options (for example whitebackground) or
> > the colormath option to tell texpower that it should turn on it's color
> > support.
>
> I indeed had found out that giving a background option made TPcolor true, but
> the TeXpower manual itself (sect. 5 p. 17) says that TeXpower assumes the
> document is in color if "the color package has been loaded before the texpower
> package (*OR* if a color-related option etc.)"
>
> And in my example I loaded pstcol (thus color) before TeXpower...

You are correct. You have found a bug. I'll try to fix it as soon as
possible. Thanks for pointing this out for me. (TeXPower detects that the
color package is loaded, but doesn't set TPcolor to true.)

Thanks,

Hans



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