How about different colours and perhaps bigger font for texts that need to be highlighted
2009/4/6 Ian Clark <[email protected]> > Yes, underlining *is* a good idea in this article. I guess I'll go > with it for the book. (Nothing gets underlined that has a lo-minus in > it.) > > I might have been inclined to underline just the array entries, > omitting the spaces, but it so happens that all underlined entries are > adjacent, and underlining as you've used it emphasises this. (Whether > it was Gene's original intention to do this is something I'll skip > over.) > > I can see I'll need to print-out the entire Chat traffic on APWJ, to > have at hand as I typeset Edn2, and not just rely on the Wiki > endnotes. > > NB: Note my comments on Tracy's discussion of Boggle. > > Ian Clark > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Kip Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ian, thanks to Oleg's _great_ suggestion I replaced bold italics within > > arrays by underlining. This preserves Eugene's intention, is easy to see > > online and in print, and with monospacing (session metaphor) works better > > across browsers (Google Chrome and Internet Explorer tested). /Kip > > > > > > Kip Murray wrote: > >> > >> These are notes for Ian about my editing of Play172 Someone Just Moved! > >> Who Was It? > >> > >> "Typesetting" is an important issue, because Eugene uses bold face in > >> _parts_ of arrays for pedagogical reasons. He also in one paragraph > without > >> comment makes a meaningful distinction between monospace 2 and ordinary > face > >> 2 . My source for his use of typesetting is the pdf version of the > article > >> from the zip mentioned in Chris's Overview of the editing project. > >> > >> I therefore worked hard using MoinMoin formatting (sorry) to make the > wiki > >> article "typesetting" match that of the pdf article, even though in-text > >> monospace (achieved with `...`) looks too short in the online article. > If > >> you ask for the print version, that looks OK, as does a printout from > the > >> print version. > >> > >> I changed Eugene's use of bold face within arrays to bold italic, > because > >> that is easier to see online and in print. Boldface within arrays was > very > >> hard to distinguish in the pdf version. > >> > >> There were minor corrections to the wiki text and one major correction, > >> namely two arrays were switched, and I switched them back. An example > of a > >> minor correction was replacing the word "ten" by monospace x (left > >> argument). In two triangular tables rather then use bold face for > column > >> and row headings I separated them from the body by "Ascii Box > Characters" > >> |+- . > >> > >> I expect it will be a challenge to get the article right for the book > from > >> the wiki page, which is now as correct as I can make it. > >> > >> Kip Murray > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsundi 23, Hraunborgum Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
