On 4-8-2011 18:36, Darren New wrote:
> On 8/4/2011 9:28, andrel wrote:
>> If this is about color, it might indeed have been added later. What I am
>> using now does support it.
>
> Neither color nor images were supported by TeX in 1991 when I used it
> for my thesis.

images were when I did mine in 1996. pretty sure we also used them a few 
years before that.

>> there was a sort of generalized output format (or input format for the
>> printing device, depending on your POV).
>
> Well, more like only supported when there was a post-processor to put
> the images into the empty spots TeX left for them, and only supported
> when color printers were common. :-)

I haven't studied how they did it.


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