[texhax] Reversing letter color

[William Adams]

On May 8, 2012, at 8:05 AM, neville holmes wrote:

> I want to reverse occasional letters or words, reversion
> in the sense of the letter or word being white on a black
> (or dark gray) background.
> 
> If you could provide me with a macro to do this, that
> would be wonderful.

Something like this?

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newcommand{\reversedtext}[1]{\colorbox[gray]{0}{\textcolor[gray]{1}{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\reversedtext{reversed text}
\end{document}

0== black, 1 == white, values in-betwixt for grey tints.

William

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