[texhax] White text on black background?

Pierre MacKay pierre.mackay at comcast.net
Sun May 24 20:06:49 CEST 2009


Peter Seibel wrote:

>On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:
>  
>
>>Peter Seibel wrote:
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>>>Is there some simple way to set text in white on a black background?
>>>I'm thinking of a small section, not a whole page. Something similar
>>>to what you'd get with this bit of HTML:
>>>
>>> <span style="background: black; color: white">123</span>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
My well-thumbed 1994 copy of Tom Rokicki's DVIPS manual Dvips: A 
DVI-to-PostScript Translator (for version 5.58c)
 gives an example of highlighted text on page 9 that could easily be 
modified for white-on-black. 

Pierre MacKay


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