From: Tristan Wibberley <twibberley@llamacom.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 17:26:09 +0000

Re: Graphtype names

Steve Cheng wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Andrew Apted wrote:
> 
 
> >
> > where <scheme> is one of :
> >
> >     'T' for GT_TEXT
> >     'P' for GT_PALETTE
> >     'C' for GT_TRUECOLOR
> >     'K' for GT_GREYSCALE  (or 'G' if you prefer)
> 
> Ok, what does 'K' stand for?

Key, standard name for the general black-grey-white ink (eg CYMK), you
can't call it black, because black is absolute in printing terms. So
someone somewhere many years ago decided that Key was a good name for
it.

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