:color. (Color)

Changes the colors of the text and text background.

Syntax

┌───────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┐
│Tag            │Element        │Attributes     │End            │
├───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│:color.        │Color          │fc=            │               │
├───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│               │               │bc=            │               │
└───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┘

Attributes

fc=

Enables you to change the color of the text. Text following this attribute appears in the color specified. The values that can be specified are:

default
black
blue
red
pink
green
cyan
yellow
neutral
brown
darkgray
darkblue
darkred
darkpink
darkgreen
darkcyan
palegray

bc=
Enables you to change the background color of the text. The screen colors remain the same. The values that can be specified are the same as those for fc=.

Description

:color. and its attributes enable you to change the color of the text and the color of the text background. Colors set with this tag remain in effect until another color is specified or a heading definition is encountered.

To return to the system colors, use fc=default and bc=default.

Conditions

None

Example

:sl.:color fc=green bc=blue.
:li.Color the foreground green; color the background blue.
.*
:color fc=blue bc=red.
:li.Color the foreground blue; color the background red.
.*
:color fc=cyan bc=yellow.
:li.Color the foreground cyan; color the background yellow.
.*
:color fc=default bc=default.
:li.Return to the system colors.
:esl.

Output

Color the foreground green; color the background blue.

Color the foreground blue; color the background red.

Color the foreground cyan; color the background yellow.

Return to the system colors.

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