[OS X TeX] Pen Colors

[Louis S VanSlyck]

Chris,

I havn't used LaTex since 1994 when I retired from an office where we 
used a VAX mainframe. From '94 to the end of last year, I used Textures 
on OX 9. (Bluesky says they're soon ready to release a new beta version 
of Textures for OS X.) When I was forced to OS X it was necessary to 
find an alternative to Textures. Twenty years ago I could translate 
(interpret) hexadecimal to Fortran or Assembler on the fly, but  I have 
virtually no knowledge of unix, C++, etc.

By the way, I just learned from Richard Koch that if 
"\usepackage{color}" is replaced by "\input color", the code below 
works fine in plain TeX.

Lou


On Nov 2, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:

> On Nov 2, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Louis S VanSlyck wrote:
>
>>> Try to reproduce your error in 20 lines or less.
>>
>> Here is the source code: I'm using TexShop on a G4 using OSX 
>> 10.3.9---attempting to typeset in plain Tex.
>>
>> \usepackage{color}
>> This line is black.
>> {\color{red} This line is red}
>> This black line is below the red line.
>> \bye
>
> This can never work because the \usepackage command is a feature of 
> latex, not a feature of plain tex.
>
> Is there a good reason that you are using plain tex rather than latex? 
> Most people would say that plain tex is really only for experts these 
> days (and your questions indicate that you're not an expert). Unless 
> you are using plain tex for compatibility reasons with old code or to 
> collaborate with other people who insist on plain tex, you should 
> probably switch to latex.
>
> -- 
> Chris Goedde
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