>> Yeah, bold is generally discouraged because it tends to stand out too 
>> much in the middle of the page. 
> 
> Small caps?  Courier?  A san-serif font?

I've tried smallcaps. I'm not sure I entirely like the effect. Courier I 
reserve for code, and I abhor sans-serif fonts.

>> Oh man... you haven't seen the document I'm writing right now! Terms 
>> in blue, source code in red, source comments in green, type signatures 
>> in royal blue, keywords in bold\ldots it's a friggin' technicolour 
>> rainbow! I should probably stop that. ;-)

"\ldots"? Jesus, I've written far too much TeX today! o_O

> When it's lots of colors, people will print it in color. If they just 
> want to print a copy of a document where three words are in blue, they 
> might not want to spend the money on color.

Heh, yeah.

Maybe I should just make the text a sufficiently light shade of blue 
that it works in greyscale acceptably?

>> Hmm, yes... OK, I'll aim for that then.
> 
> Just a suggestion, mind. If you want to turn it into an entire section, 
> that works too. I *would* suggest more than one example, since that's 
> the point you're trying to make.

I'm going to have to find more examples...

I think I might mention in passing "comparisons to the Composit design 
pattern are left as an exercise for the reader". ;-)

>> Which time zone do y-- oh, right.
> 
> Clever, huh? That's why it's there. ;-)

Do you guys still observe DLS?

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