Re: [Groff] call for comments on a proposed patch

[Gaius Mulley]

Rüdiger Härtel <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Gaius
> 
> this is really a nice patch. I can image another feature: 
> Highlighting every 2nd column.
> 
> This can be done already, I know, by defining every row. But 
> enabling this for the complete table would be less work.

Hi Rüdiger,

thanks for the comments and suggestions.  This feature looks to be
useful and easy enough to implement..

> .defcolor grey rgb 0.1f 0.1f 0.1f
> 
> .TS
> tab(#), center, cycle(white,grey,lightgrey);

or maybe another suitable keyword to "cycle" ?

> c c.
> 1#1st bg color (white)
> 2#2nd bg color (grey)
> 3#1st bg color (white)

3#3rd bg color (lightgrey)

> 4#2nd bg color (grey)
4#1st bg color (white)
> .TE
> 
> What then could happen is that the text is not visible because the 
> bg color was chosen badly. This could be solved by using the 
> inverse color for text of the bg color.

probably best to let the user observe and fix :-)

regards,
Gaius