From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 21 10:42:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F2537B401; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A6C43E77; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0274.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.19] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 183gZk-00036g-00; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:42:48 -0700 Message-ID: <3DB43C51.5ABE4F79@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:41:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , "Andrey A. Chernov" , "M. Warner Losh" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: color, again, in grotty References: <200210210815.g9L8Fx88081707@orthanc.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > 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. Now *there's* an idea: output to html, because you are guaranteed that the rendering will Do The Right Thing(tm) for color. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message