Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:58:35 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: color, again, in grotty Message-ID: <20021021145835.GA45316@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200210210815.g9L8Fx88081707@orthanc.ab.ca> References: <20021021074056.GE14584@sunbay.com> <200210210815.g9L8Fx88081707@orthanc.ab.ca>
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In the last episode (Oct 21), Lyndon Nerenberg said: > Haven't we learned a lesson from HTML? The unreadable colour > combinations are bad enough there. The *LAST* thing I need is man > pages with unreadable colour markup. What possible purpose can > colour output from nroff serve, other than to satisfy someones > craving for more blinkenlitz? We're knocking on the door of the > twilight zone here, folks. I agree. I can't think of any manpages that would benefit from having a rainbow of colors available to them (except possibly vidcontrol). If what people really want is the ability to make "WARNING" or "BUGS" headers stand out, then that's markup, not colors. That sounds like the job of "grohtml" + user-generated CSS. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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