I guess you have also looked at changing the background greyscale
2009/4/6 Ian Clark <[email protected]> > > How about different colours ... > > This is one of the devices used elsewhere in Edn1. For "colour" read > "greyscale" because I'm not printing in 4-colour -- costs too much. > You might consider colour in the Wiki though (and I guess it's used > already to emphasise preformatted code). Colour works best if it's > used very sparingly. You don't want it all to look like Times Square. > > Hiliting the code font (or its background) is only feasible if it > doesn't disrupt a tabulation relying on fixed-font spacing. > > You might query the logic of hiliting code anyway. Gene does it, > however, to succintly convey pertinent information. > > Allied to this general question, I think I've found an answer to the > problem of representing a continuation line of code on the printed > page. Embed a tiny bitmap (eg a grey arrow). Copy/paste into the J > session will not recognise this as a character, not even a unicode > one. So I no longer need shrink the code font until it all fits on one > line (...soooo ugly!) > > NB. There's already a policy for splitting too-long comments. > NB. ...Just start a new NB. > > Ian Clark > > > 2009/4/6 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > > 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 | > > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > > | ) | (\_ _/) > > (`-. 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