hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:

> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:

thanks.


> > am not too sure about the "tint", and ask
> > > for suggestions for a 'rgbf' colour value that would go well with the defaults.
>
> Typical highlight/background colors might be white, green, orange, yellow, blue,
> magenta, etc.
> ...
> I usually use examples from well-developed software packages or presentations to
> draw inspiration when I hit a mental / aesthetic block.
>
> Maybe open up LibreOffice / OpenOffice Calc and see what works, or just do a web
> image search for "spreadsheet" and see what works.

"block" yes, good advice.  I did just that, Google Images "spreadsheet", and
found pretty much every colour used for highlighting.  :-)

decided to use '<.65,.65,.9,.975>', another blue.


> Depending on what the final render application is, you may want to consider
> adding rgbt 1, or not rendering the background box at all, to allow for
> transparent backgrounds with that +ua setting.

good point.  have not tried yet with alpha-channel, but made a todo note.


> I could also envision a need for an rgbf color, say if someone was using a table
> to annotate an image or something like that.
>
> Heck.  Tabulated () could be used to make a chess game animation, highlighting
> the current piece and destination square / options....  ;)

:-)


regards, jr.

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