[XeTeX] table* environment does not respect font color

[Jonathan Kew]

On 11 Dec 2005, at 6:29 pm, Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill wrote:

>
> Following up from my previous post, if I place my 'tabular'
> environment inside, say, 'center' instead of 'table*' then everything
> is as it should be, so it seems to be the table* environment.

OK, so it sounds as though the "table*" environment must be  
specifying the color itself. Colors specified as part of a font  
definition can be overridden by the use of \special{} commands that  
explicitly set the color (either XeTeX's original "x:textcolor" or  
the "color" specials from dvips/dvipdfm/etc that xdv2pdf also  
recognizes), and I would guess that "table*" is doing something like  
this, probably through the "color" package. Maybe one of the LaTeX  
experts around could confirm this?

JK