<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I am trying to slightly enhance the TeX command "input color" </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">so it will include the  547 color definitions  due to Loreti.   </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">What I would like is to leave this additional info (say within the</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">../tex-local/.. folder) so various TeX-live updates will continue</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">to operate correctly.    </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Currently I am using a less than optimal approach in which I</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">have modified a TeX-live file not in the ../tex-local/... .  .../texlive/YYYY/tex-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/dvips.def</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">by adding the following line at the end of the file   </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">\input /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/plain/local/colordef.tex</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">currently when I run tex on a file with \input color  is obtain </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">This is TeX, Version 3.141592653 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded format=tex)</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(./test.tex</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/plain/graphics-pln/color.tex</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/plain/local/miniltx.tex)</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-cfg/color.cfg)</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/dvips.def</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/plain/local/colordef.tex)))) [1] )</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 304 bytes).</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Transcript written on test.log.</span></p><p style="font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif">I have attached this file below with the test.pdf as well.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif">Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  </font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif">Walt Burkhard</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div>