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Re: RGB Values of "NeXT Help Blue"

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From: Thomas J. Baker
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:33
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In article <82110@hydra.gatech.EDU> cc100aa@xray.gatech.edu (Ray Spalding)  
writes: 
> There may be more going on here than meets the eye, so to speak :-).
> 
> Look at the RTF code in:
> /usr/lib/NextStep/Resources/English.lproj/HelpTemplate/Index.rtfd/TXT.rtf
> 
> Just guessing, but it looks to me like they encode both a color
> value (red56,green70,blue144) that the Text object will use to
> display certain text on a color device, AND a gray value (gray333)
> that it will use to display the same text on a gray-scale device.
> 
> -- 
> Ray Spalding, Office of Information Technology
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0715
> Internet: ray.spalding@oit.gatech.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)


It seems we're getting close.  I know the tiff's for the lines have both 24bit  
and 2bit color representations in them.  It seems like the text does too.  But  
does anyone know how to do this?  The following bit of RTF is what happens in  
the NeXT Help File:

{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red56\green70\blue144;\red85\green85\blue85;}
\pard\tx720\tx1080\tx1440\tx1800\tx2160\tx2520\tx2880\tx3240\tx3600\tx3960\tx43 
2
0\tx4680\tx5040\tx5400\tx5760\tx6120\tx6480\tx6840\tx7200\tx7560\f0\b0\i0\ulnon 
e
\fs16\li360\fc1\cf1 \

\b\fs36 Index
\i
\b0\i0\fs20\gray333\fc2\cf2 (Click a topic to learn about it)
\b\fs36\gray0\fc1\cf1
\f1\b0\fs16 \

Both "Index" and "(Click a topic to learn about it)" are displayed in either  
blue or dark gray depending on the window depth.  Wouldn't it be great if you  
could have different depth representations of an RTF file in Edit and be able  
to switch between them, like in IconBuilder?  

Anyway, if anyone knows how to generate this RTF (besides by hand) I'd like to  
know.

Thanks,

tjb
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