[Tugindia] Inexperienced with colour - what do I do?

[Ajay Shah]

I usually produce black and white documents and have been using the
attached ans-setup.tex (most of which was written by CVR).

I now want to switch to "uncompromisingly perfect colour documents". I
am, of course, aware of how to put colour into tex files. But I don't
have a typesetting judgment and intuition of how this would work.

Does the TeX community have an answer? I would argue that we should
have a framework like this. Currently, I do:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twocolumn]{book}
\usepackage[pdftex,pagebackref]{hyperref}
\usepackage{tabls}
\usepackage{a4wide}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{calc,tabls}

The framework should be one where I should say:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twocolumn,color]{book}

and everything should change behaviour.

In a conventional document, I say:

   \section{Blah}

and don't have to think about how it is typeset. Font, size, spacing,
etc. is all automatically taken care of. In that same fashion, if I
say:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twocolumn,color]{book}

then \section{Blah} should work perfectly, where good wizards have
embedded good knowledge and exploited colour in addition to font, size
and spacing. The rules and captions associated with \floatstyle{ruled}
should change. And so on.

Is this plausible, and has it been done!? :-)

-- 
Ajay Shah                                                   Consultant
ajayshah at mayin.org                      Department of Economic Affairs
http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah           Ministry of Finance, New Delhi