Invisible wrote:
> 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?

> 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. ;-)

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.

> 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.

> Which time zone do y-- oh, right.

Clever, huh? That's why it's there. ;-)

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   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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>> That's the plan, yes. It's part of the "portfolio" of (debatably) 
>> well-written documents I'm building. (You might remember the one a 
>> while ago on sorting/searching? I still have that.)
> 
> Yes. Cool. I bet folks here would help you polish them up again.
> 
> It always helps to go back a month later and read it again, too.

Heh, yeah probably. Maybe I'll go look at that next week.

>> You've done this before. :-P
> 
> *That* is the sort of stuff a PhD teaches you, more than anything 
> technical.

Hehe. In the style of XKCD:

"My hobby: Watching professionals at work, and then saying with 
suspicion 'you've done that before!' "

>> Hmm... clearly I'm going to have to devote some serious attention to 
>> my existing two documents. ;-)
> 
> Yes.  And think up some abstracts/conclusions for other papers you might 
> want to fill in some day, and ask "would you read this if this were the 
> abstract?"

Yeah, but... it's *me*! I'll read anything with computing, algebra or 
pretty pictures in it. ;-)

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

Nah. As it is is fine, as long as you *also* keep the italics.

>> Clever, huh? That's why it's there. ;-)
> Do you guys still observe DLS?

Sadly, yes.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:16:52 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>>> Why would we point and laugh? It's very clear and well presented.
>>> Really?
>> 
>> Yeah, really.  I read a bit of it (I'm not a hard-core programmer so
>> the topic isn't as much of an interest to me, but I've said it before
>> that you write well and I stand by that assessment).
> 
> Nice that somebody thinks so...

Well, like I said, it's a true statement.  You write well - it's 
something you should consider a strength. :-)

>>>> Nits:
>>> Oh goodie.
>> 
>> Hey, all people can stand to improve on their writing.  Don't take it
>> so personally - it's called "constructive criticism".
> 
> Yeah, I wasn't completely serious about that comment. ;-)

Fair enough, that means you're learning. ;-)

>> As I mentioned
>> before, professional writers usually use an editor as well because when
>> you write tohusands of words, you're bound to mess some of them up.  It
>> happens to everyone. :-)
> 
> You don't even have to write "tohusands" of words. Apparently. :-P

LOL!  Would it help if I said I did that intentionally?  (No, I didn't 
think so, but it couldn't have hurt to ask, could it? <G>)

Jim

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