Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

  > >>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
  > 
  > David> Actually, it does not make sense to scale in that way.  #3a7
  > David> really should be the same as #3333aaaa7777, so that #fff is the
  > David> same as #ffffffffffff, pure white.
  > 
  > David> Somebody should tell the X people to do that.
  > 
  > I beleive I recall this coming up on the xfree lists some years back,
  > and further beleive that the current codebase of both xfree and xorg
  > do in fact scale the way David recomends.
  > 
  > It is likely that only the docs are out of date.
  > 
  > It is certainly the case that the colours named by xmag(1x) when you
  > click on a pixel in its window show the replicated pattern, and I tend
  > to use the #rrggbb convention for specifying colours....

Great! Thanks, I think this is the info we needed.
I tried xmag on both solaris2.8 and Fedora Core 3 and indeed it seems
that the conversion it uses is Y -> YY (where Y is 8bit).
Eli, do you agree to go this way? 

        --dan