Date:          Sat, Jan 17 1998 12:00 am
Groups:        comp.text.tex

> And what are the TeX commands to produce this colour text ?

  If you want Plain TeX commands, I think you are SOL (if I'm wrong, someone
correct me on this).  LaTeX2e is the easiest way to get TeX to produce color
output.  (Strictly speaking, this is wrong: TeX doesn't produce color output.
All TeX will do is ship \special commands to the dvi file, and you need a dvi
viewer/printer that can interpret these \special commands to produce color when
printed.  The easiest route to get color output is to use LaTeX2e, convert the
dvi file to a ps file via dvips, then print the ps file (if you don't have a
postscript printer, use Ghostscript/Ghostview).)

  If you look at pp.~131-132 and pp.~224-225 of Lamport's book (second
edition), you'll find the information you want.  If you don't have a copy of
this book, get one.  It has the answers to a lot of frequently asked questions
(you'll not only find it helpful, but it will keep you from irritating people
on this group by asking questions that you could answer yourself by consulting
the appropriate text).

Example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}

This is some \textcolor{red}{red text}.
This is some \textcolor{blue}{blue text}.

\definecolor{magenta}{rgb}{1,0,1}

This is some \textcolor{magenta}{magenta text}.

\end{document}

Jason Alexander <j…@ea.oac.uci.edu>