- These functions are an extension to the curses library.
- They permit an application to dynamically allocate a color
- pair using the foreground/background colors rather than
- assign a fixed color pair number, and return an unused
- pair to the pool.
-
- The number of colors may be related to the number of pos-
- sible color pairs for a given terminal, or it may not:
-
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> While almost all terminals allow setting the color
- <EM>attributes</EM> independently, it is unlikely that your
- terminal allows you to modify the attributes of a
- given character cell without rewriting it. That is,
- the foreground and background colors are applied as a
+ These functions are an extension to the curses library. They permit an
+ application to dynamically allocate a color pair using the fore-
+ ground/background colors rather than assign a fixed color pair number,
+ and return an unused pair to the pool.
+
+ The number of colors may be related to the number of possible color
+ pairs for a given terminal, or it may not:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> While almost all terminals allow setting the color <EM>attributes</EM> inde-
+ pendently, it is unlikely that your terminal allows you to modify
+ the attributes of a given character cell without rewriting it.
+ That is, the foreground and background colors are applied as a