New CTAN package: mpcolornames
Date: July 27, 2011 1:09:45 AM CEST
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 Stephan Hennig submitted the
mpcolornames
package.
Summary description: color names for MetaPost
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
The MetaPost format plain.mp provides only five built-in color names (variables), all defined in the RGB model: red, green and blue for the primary colors and black and white. The mpcolornames package makes more than 500 color names from different color sets in different color models available to MetaPost. Color sets include X11, SVG, DVIPS and xcolor specifications.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/mpcolornames . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mpcolornames (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 . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
The MetaPost format plain.mp provides only five built-in color names (variables), all defined in the RGB model: red, green and blue for the primary colors and black and white. The mpcolornames package makes more than 500 color names from different color sets in different color models available to MetaPost. Color sets include X11, SVG, DVIPS and xcolor specifications.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/mpcolornames . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mpcolornames (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 . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
mpcolornames – Extend list of predefined colour names for METAPOST
The METAPOST format plain.mp provides only five built-in colour names (variables), all of which are defined in the RGB model: red, green and blue for the primary colours and black and white. The package makes more than 500 colour names from different colour sets in different colour models available to METAPOST. Colour sets include X11, SVG, DVIPS and xcolor specifications.
| Package | mpcolornames |
| Version | 0.20 |
| Copyright | 2009, 2011 Stephan Hennig |
| Maintainer | Stephan Hennig |