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28 Mar 2026 13:09:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SVG Recognized colors  
From: jr
Date: 28 Mar 2026 06:35:00
Message: <web.69c7ae40d157b00d48bf72fa6cde94f1@news.povray.org>
hi,

kurtz le pirate <kur### [at] freefr> wrote:
> On 25/03/2026 23:02, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> > ...
> > Thanks for this.  I toyed around with this idea a few years ago, but I got the
> > sense that the list of colors varied from distro to distro, so I put it on
> > indefinite hold.  Looking at your source, I wonder if the inconsistencies may
> > have been because I was looking at X11 rather than SVG.
>
> X11 ?
>
>  From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names> ...

really ??  why not use the "authoritative" source, '/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt' ?
and you get well over 500 colour names and variations (594 here).


regards, jr.


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