POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The dangers of LaTeX : Re: The dangers of LaTeX Server Time
4 Sep 2024 09:15:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The dangers of LaTeX  
From: Invisible
Date: 25 Mar 2010 12:44:15
Message: <4bab92df$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:

> Ah yes, that works. Now the whole example is green.
> 
> EXCEPT when the code fragment just happens to fall on the very first 
> line of a page, in which case it unexplicably comes out black again. 
> *facepalm*

This just gets weirder. Apparently this is a DVI previewer thing. If you 
have colour commands near the very top or bottom of a page, the 
following page sometimes changes colour. Sometimes flicking forwards and 
backwards through the pages changes the colour that the text appears in. 
(!!)

PDFTeX seems to have no such issue - but still, this just goes to 
hilight that TeX was never designed to cope with colour in the first 
place. It's a miracle it works at all!


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