This section has definition of 16 colours for highlighting colours between a string enumeration with hexadecimal RGB values. These colours are platform specific colours, from the legacy of Windows 3.0 (or earlier) where 4bit colours (16 available colours) were defined. The colour names and colour values are not standard with HTML colours. The 16 colour enumeration limits the number of editors working on one document. New online applications may have to support hundreds of concurrent editors, and this 20 year old definition of colours will limit this specifications utility.

Change the definition of colours to HTML colour name and values, or SVG colour name and values, or allow direct hexadecimal colour values for full 24bit colour palette (over 16 million colours).

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment MY-0012 (Modified: 2008-01-10) Agreed; the following changes will be made in Part 4, §2.18.46, pages 1,739­1,740 to be consistent with the aforementioned standards: Enumeration Value Description darkBlue (Dark Blue Highlighting Color) Specifies that the text highlighting color for this run shall be dark blue. The hexadecimal RGB value for this setting shall be 000080 00008B . darkCyan (Dark Cyan Highlighting Color) Specifies that the text highlighting color for this run shall be dark cyan. The hexadecimal RGB value for this setting shall be 008080 008B8B . darkGray (Dark Gray Highlighting Color) Specifies that the text highlighting color for this run shall be dark gray. The hexadecimal RGB value for this setting shall be 808080 A9A9A9 . darkGreen (Dark Green Highlighting Color) Specifies that the text highlighting color for this run shall be dark green. The hexadecimal RGB value for this setting shall be 008000 006400 . darkRed (Dark Red Highlighting Color) Specifies that the text highlighting color for this run shall be dark red. The hexadecimal RGB value for this setting shall be 8 00000 8 B0000 . lightGray (Light Gray Highlighting Color) Specifies that the text highlighting color for this run shall be light gray. The hexadecimal RGB value for this setting shall be C0C0C0 D3D3D3 . As well, in order to improve consistency between the ST_PresetColorVal simple type and SVG, the SVG naming convention has been adopted. This is described in the disposition for comment MY-0013. Similar Comments: CO-0128 , DK-0146 , VE-0034