"Paul A Bristow" <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> writes:
| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Reece Dunn | Sent: 13 September 2004 18:28 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: RE: [boost] Formal review of "Output Formatters" | library begins today
| > One thing I would REALLY REALLY like is a Boost 'Standard' way of | >colouring and indenting code similar to Visual Studio IDE - | though I don't | >feel their colour scheme is quite as good mine! | | What do you think about the new Boost.quickdoc? The docs for | quickbook are | available at http://tinyurl.com/64el7, and the source is at | http://tinyurl.com/4tdjj. Thanks to Eric and Joel for this great tool.
I don't like the greyed background to anything. I don't think it helps at all.
It doesn't; research has shown that black on white communicates most clearly.
It makes things take longer to print out if you need a paper copy - when the going gets really tough. Nor do the boxes around really help much either, but they at least don't hinder.
Every bit of extraneous visual information hurts readability a little.
The coloring isn't strong enough for my taste - using blue for keywords is a great help in reading,
Y'see, there will always be disagreement on that. Dark blue keywords are too strong for me. I use a slightly more mild purple color. Oh, and type names are green ;-) If you know emacs, these are my settings (plus defaults): (set-face-foreground font-lock-builtin-face "red3") (set-face-foreground font-lock-comment-face "red3") (set-face-foreground font-lock-constant-face "slateblue") (set-face-foreground font-lock-string-face "darkgreen")
The colour scheme chosen by Textpad (my favorite replacement for Notepad) - textpad.com for coloring C and C++ seems good -and mine only slightly better ;-)
My view is that color is a massive hit in helping people to read code, especially if it can be applied uniformly, something that Boost could 'impose'.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com