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12 Version 1.4 includes commands to allow the independent colouring of
13 characters, or their backgrounds. Colours are defined in a similar
14 manner to fonts using the DEFINE_COLOUR command (American spelling also
15 allowed). For example:
19 defines colour number 7 to be red - see
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22 this command. Colours 99 and 100 are pre-defined to white and black.
23 ALSCRIPT assumes the paper colour is white.
25 The command to colour the text of a character or text string is:
29 the command to colour the background of a character is
33 both have similar syntax to the FONT_CHARScommand.
35 COLOUR_REGION and COLOUR_RES have similar syntax to SHADE_REGION and
38 An example command file that uses colour is shown in example3.als.