[metapost] CMYK colors

[Steve Peter]

On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:43 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> On 06/23/11 00:34, Troy Henderson wrote:
>> Is there a reason that when the CMYK colorspace support was added to
>> MetaPost that the colors "cyan", "magenta", "yellow", and "key" (or
>> "black") were not added as synonyms to (1,0,0,0), (0,1,0,0),
>> (0,0,1,0), and (0,0,0,1), respectively?  
> 
> Probably because nobody thought about it. But I do not like 'key'
> in any case. 

Why? That *is* what K means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_plate.

Steve