[TxMt] Italics in syntax bundles

[Allan Odgaard]

On Nov 23, 2004, at 10:59, Jeroen wrote:

> My experience is that italics in most fixed-width fonts does not look 
> that good and is bad for readability.

That's probably w/o anti-alias?

> 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.

Except for people with low color perception or color-blindness.

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

More contrast!!! More style-change (i.e. bold/italic/underline)!!!

Personally I do have very low color perception, so for me the styles is 
the main cue, which is also why the default (Objective-)C(++) files had 
a light grey background which allowed for both black and white text :)