However this is pursued some thought should be given to the choices of colors to meet W3C accessibility standards. For example red and green are used to differentiate symbols in the screenshot. This is a bad choice as a significant fraction of the population is red/green color blind.
On Wednesday, January 7, 2026 at 1:23:33 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > I agree with the value of colorization. I was just experimenting with > coloring passwords with different colors for lower case, uppercase, and > digits/punctuation after realizing that I kind of use tone in mental > recitation to indicate uppercase. In the same spirit it might be > interesting to have colors for variables of interest, other variables, and > constants. > > /c > On Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 9:03:13 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > >> Ed, >> >> The coloring is sort of cool. Am I correct that the intention to help >> people visualize what is known and what is being solved for? >> >> If you are interested in using Sympy for algebraic manipulations I >> suggest you look at my package Algebra_with_Sympy >> <https://gutow.github.io/Algebra_with_Sympy/algebra_with_sympy.html> because >> the plain vanilla Eq class you are using can collapse to True or False >> unexpectedly. Algebra_with_Sympy implements an additional equation class >> that will not collapse. Along with many convenience tools for doing step >> wise algebra in IPython environments (including Jupyter notebooks, with >> typeset expressions). There is no color coding tools in Algebra_with_Sympy, >> but if you are interested in collaborating, I think it would not be a >> difficult addition. >> >> Regards, >> Jonathan >> >> On Monday, January 5, 2026 at 7:50:51 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Hello 🙋♂️ >>> >>> I've been experimenting with using colors for symbols in equations: >>> >>> [image: Untitled.png] >>> >>> First I display the list of equations. >>> `values` is a dict of symbols and their numerical values. >>> `want` is the symbol I want to solve for. >>> >>> `display_equations_`: >>> shows the `values` symbols in green >>> shows the `want` symbol in red >>> >>> I then solve the system of equations for the wanted symbol. >>> >>> The result is displayed: >>> red on the left >>> only greens on the right >>> >>> Question: >>> Is there already a library out there for this? >>> Just wanted to review similar projects if there are any. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> Ed >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/21213aee-365c-4e56-a500-60e0dc35d41dn%40googlegroups.com.
