If I want to gray out large swaths of text in a report, I know that I can use the xcolor
package's \color{black!50} command:
How to change color for a block of texts?
http://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/latex/use-font-colors-in-latex-documents
Is there any way to confirm that the default color is indeed black before I issue the above command?
In a related search, I found that I can even push the current colour onto a stack:
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/colours.html
However, that page is from 1997, targets slides, and uses a different package. I am currently very bound to the xcolor
package.
This question has been posted at:
How to save the current colour
http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=25431
Best Answer
Package
xcolor
has the concept of a "current color" with the dot as name. With\colorlet
it can be saved:Or grouping can be used, which also works with LaTeX's
color
package:small text:
\textcolor{black!50}{...}
larger chunks including paragraphs:
(Also curly braces can be used for grouping.)