Bug#434706: texlive-latex-base: color package uses black for figure captions and page numbers

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

retitle 434706 Color handling could have the concept of a default foreground color
severity 434706 wishlist
thanks

Hi,

Ryo Furue <furue@hawaii.edu> wrote:

> Hmm . . . It seems to me that a possible solution is to add a
> "default foreground color" (DFC) to the protocol.  The LaTeX color
> package would insert a special saying "put this text in the DFC"
> instead of saying "put this text in black."  Then, xdvi, dvips,
> or dvipdf would substitute DFC with its current foreground color
> before it asks GhostScript to render the text.  I think this scheme
> would count as a "proper fix" rather than a "workaround".

This looks like a complex change, involving at least:
  - color.sty / xcolor.sty;
  - xdvi
  - dvips
  - dvipdfm & Co

I fear none of us has the time and inclination to push such a change
upstream, so if you want it to become reality, I suggest you to discuss
it in comp.text.tex and/or with the xcolor package maintainer.

Regards,

-- 
Florent