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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: aaditya@sood.net.in, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: alpha support for colors
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:00:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ip9r70l4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lienjsz0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: aaditya sood <aaditya@sood.net.in>,
>     emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:06:11 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > What do you mean by "composition of all the faces"?  Why "all"?
> 
> I suspect aaditya is thinking in terms of bitmap composition
> operations on graphics layers, not Emacs faces.

Maybe.  I just don't understand clearly enough what exactly was the
intent.

As you know, Emacs doesn't operate on the bitmap level, except very
low in the terminal-specific code.  At that level, there are no faces
anymore, just colors and other graphics-related stuff.

> So he'd like to put an overlay on some text, give that overlay a 'face
> property of '(+ red), and turn all the blue text in the overlay to
> violet (the RGB sum of #F00 and #00F == #F0F).

Maybe I don't get something, but (a) this _is_ about faces and their
combination, '(+ red) being a kind of "syntactic sugar"; and (b) all
it needs is the ability to combine colors when merging faces, instead
of just selecting one color of the two.  By contrast, alpha-blending,
AFAIU, is about transparency, not about combining any 2 colors.  So
I'm probably still missing something.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-29 20:19 alpha support for colors aaditya sood
2012-10-30  1:52 ` Chong Yidong
2012-10-30  5:02   ` aaditya sood
2012-10-30  5:07     ` Masatake YAMATO
2012-10-30  6:51     ` joakim
2012-10-30  7:37       ` aaditya sood
2012-10-30 13:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-30 17:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-31  2:06           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-31  4:00             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-10-30 17:43     ` Eli Zaretskii

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