Bryan Aupperle wrote:
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> I have added two shades of grey (10% and 20%) to the samples. I agree
> with your point about grey working well with color-challenged technology
> and people. My only concern about that approach is that this does not
> provide any real visual distinction from samples.
If we make the two grey different (10% v. 20%) and put a box around the
examples that may do the trick.
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> In the C++ and C specs we use italics for text literals and courier for
> language constructs (keywords/identifiers), so I would not be thrilled
> with the font changes you suggested.
>
Don't have a strong opinion on this, but I have a mild preference to use
courier for both language constructs and literals with quotes around
literals.
> Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
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> *Anish Karmarkar <>*
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> Bryan,
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> Thanks for starting the thread and providing alternatives.
> I actually prefer a shade of grey. Is there a good reason not to use
> grey? Works well with color-challenged technology and people. We could
> even use italics in addition to the grey color. I know in some SCA specs
> we have used italics (although not consistently) for attribute/element
> names/values, but I would suggest changing that and using courier new
> font for those.
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> I would also like to start a discussion on the suggestion that Eric had
> made: to use a superscript instead of running text for the conformance
> item number. It does enhance the readability.
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> -Anish
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> Bryan Aupperle wrote:
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> > There has been some discussion over the past few weeks about the color
> > highlighting of the conformance points in several of the TCs. To
> > summarize the key points of the discussion:
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> > - Without the highlighting, it is not clear in the PDF version of
> > document what the extent of the conformance point text is (it shows up
> > with grey shading in Word but this is not carried over to the generated
> > PDF). One of the TAB members remarked favorably on the highlighting of
> > the Assembly spec in his review of the C++ spec.
> > - The current highlight color can make the text hard to read in some
> > environments, especially when the highlighted content includes added
> > text that is displayed in a different color. This will not be as big a
> > concern when we are done working on the documents, but is a problem for
> > us in the mean time.
> > - The current color is rather intense.
> >
> > I have prepared a test version of the C spec, which currently does not
> > have the highlighting, showing 6 different highlight color options (the
> > original yellow, plus 5 others) The best place to look at the samples
> > is Appendix F (pages 109-112). Here you can see the colors with and
> > without added text in them. I have also converted the sample to PDF to
> > show what that would look like (links do not work).
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> > I offer this up to start an e-mail discussion about what highlighting
> > color people prefer. My preference is the light yellow used for C20006
> > and C20014. It shows well but does not seem to clash as badly with red
> > marking for added text.
> >
> > Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
> > STSM, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect
> >
> > Research Triangle Park, NC
> > +1 919-254-7508 (T/L 444-7508)
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