[plt-scheme] Highlighting parentheses.

Wed Dec 5 01:05:01 EST 2007

Yes, I think that both proposals are excellent ideas.

  Incidentally, the hue of green in the lower right corner of the lower (dark background) proposal was exactly the hue that I meant in my earlier proposal for a starting color for a revised dark-to-light spring variety.  This was called "Forest Green," and a slightly brighter version was my background color back in Emacs running on OpenWindows 3.0 on a Sun Sparc I in college in 1994.

  However, I think that I actually tried out #000060 back then, and found it too dark to go with black text.  For a combination with black text, I think that I probably used #379931 (see "129 Vivid Yellowish Green" on "The NBS/ISCC Color System" (http://www.anthus.com/Colors/Cent.html#137) for the background, instead.

  Perhaps #000060 would work fine as a dark background for either white or yellow/gold text, while #379931 would work well as a relatively light background for black text.

  Benjamin L. Russell

"Majorinc, Kazimir" <kazimir at chem.pmf.hr> wrote:
  I have two proposals, for light and dark background, respectively.

#DFFFDF
#FFDFDF
#DFFFFF
#DFDFFF
#FFFFDF
#FFDFFF

#600060
#006060
#600000
#606000
#000060

By that order. High color contrast between neighbor s-expressions (for distinction) and low brightness contrast (for eyes.) If more than six colours are needed, rotate. 

         Texts   Texts   Texts     Texts   Texts   Texts
        Texts  Texts  Texts    Text  Texts  Texts

_________________________________________________
For list-related administrative tasks:
http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/attachments/20071204/a18391ad/attachment.html>