Re: RFC: Adding syntax highlighting to the official documentation

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On 19/12/2021 10:00, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> For the time being I'm only
> focusing on HTML output. That has the advantage that
> if even the contrast does not help, people can use
> tools to adapt or remove the color scheme if they
> need to. Echoing James' comment below, while not everyone
> knows how to do this, I would assume someone with
> some sort of vision impairment or trouble with colors
> would. Right?

What you're missing here, is that someone with vision impairment may 
well have customised their system already. If your scheme messes that 
up, they won't thank you!

Can I remind you of the original aim of html - it is to give the END 
USER the power to control how the document displays. This has already 
been screwed over enough - such that I regularly find documents that I 
want to print print something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT to what displays on 
screen, that I don't think we should be making matters worse ...

You should not be choosing colours, you should be creating a CSS with 
things like <emphasize> and <code> and whatever all those things are. 
It's down to the USER how those tags display.

Cheers,
Wol