CTAN has a new package: xecolour

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xecolour Author's name: Vafa Khalighi Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/ Summary description: Colour is XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text:

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xecolour package is a simple package which defines about 140 different colours by XeTeX's colour feature that can be used in bidirectional texts without any problem. All the command names are the names of the colours (i.e. \blue for blue colour) except ``\tancolour'' for ``tan colour'' and the general syntax of the command is \colourname{<text>}

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This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecolour . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xecolour (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .