Re: Colored Code

Subject: Re: Colored Code
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:49:30 -0500




Ratz Günter (CPTec GmbH) wrote:

Hi Simon,


Our editor has color highlighting (red, blue, green), which will be familiar to many of you. My manager wants me to use the same color highlighting in the documentation (and online help).
Please, can you give me a peer vote? Am I being pedantic, or would you support my stance? Help!!!


Think of people with disabilities... That's reason enough to avoid any color coding.


Nice knee-jerk, Guenter. However the color coding being requested is redundant to the content of the code. That is, it's an aid that allows someone to focus on relevant parts of the code more quickly than might otherwise be possible, but it does not convey any information that isn't already present in the text. No decision depends on what color a given piece of text might be.


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