| -----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 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. The coloring isn't strong enough for my taste - using blue for keywords is a great help in reading, 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'. Paul Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539 561830 +44 7714 330204 mailto: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com