Hi Bryan,
I, for one, like the C20009 color better (Light Green, apparently).
However, as someone who is red-green deficient
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuteranomaly#Anomalous_trichromacy) -
I'm not sure you should take my assessment of what looks good.
For what it is worth, I changed my PDF reader to black & white mode
(for accessibility). The colors used for C20006 & C20009 work
better than the others for this purpose (for this comparison, at least,
my eyes work just fine). I recommend printing to a black and white
laser printer, to see how it comes out, and whether you like it.
I would venture to guess that you can go even closer to white, lighter
still.
-Eric.
Bryan Aupperle wrote:
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There has been some discussion over
the past few weeks about the color highlighting of the conformance
points
in several of the TCs. To summarize the key points of the discussion:
- Without the highlighting, it is
not
clear in the PDF version of document what the extent of the conformance
point text is (it shows up with grey shading in Word but this is not
carried
over to the generated PDF). One of the TAB members remarked favorably
on the highlighting of the Assembly spec in his review of the C++ spec.
- The current highlight color can
make
the text hard to read in some environments, especially when the
highlighted
content includes added text that is displayed in a different color.
This
will not be as big a concern when we are done working on the documents,
but is a problem for us in the mean time.
- The current color is rather
intense.
I have prepared a test version of
the
C spec, which currently does not have the highlighting, showing 6
different
highlight color options (the original yellow, plus 5 others) The
best place to look at the samples is Appendix F (pages 109-112). Here
you can see the colors with and without added text in them. I have
also converted the sample to PDF to show what that would look like
(links
do not work).
I offer this up to start an e-mail
discussion
about what highlighting color people prefer. My preference is the
light yellow used for C20006 and C20014. It shows well but does not
seem to clash as badly with red marking for added text.
Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
STSM, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect
Research Triangle Park, NC
+1 919-254-7508 (T/L 444-7508)
Internet Address: aupperle@us.ibm.com
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