[TxMt] Italics in syntax bundles

[Jeroen]

Hello,

I noticed that a lot of the syntax highlight bundles use different 
colours, and on top of that also other decoration such as underline and 
italics.
My experience is that italics in most fixed-width fonts does not look 
that good and is bad for readability.

The other thing is that the italics is mostly superfluous: the aim is to 
differentiate text from surrounding text and most of the time, this is 
already achieved by using a different colour and using italics as well 
does not really help.

So I propose that authors of syntax highlight bundles use italics 
sparingly and only if it really has extra value to use it.

How do other users feel about this? And does anyone else have tips for 
increasing usability of syntax highlight bundles?

Jeroen.