Re: Feedback wanted: syntax highlighting in the LilyPond documentation

[ebenezer]

Hi Jean,

I like the idea that it should be possible.

I would like for it to be (easily) customisable.

I already have a text editor colour scheme that I use for music, for 
parts and scores I have found it is not so important.

My perspective is that I only need colour for highlighting key items 
within music such as \time, \tempo, comments, \override, bar lines and 
'beat space'; beat space is 2 white spaces that I use to delineate music 
within a measure, I find having this as bright white on a pale silver 
background really helps.

Thank you for throwing this out there, and sorry that you will have 1001 
conflicting opinions on how to progress!

Good luck.


On 2022-01-01 23:45, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is an ongoing proposal to add syntax highlighting
> in LilyPond's documentation. Since it is a notable change
> to the documentation reading experience, user feedback would
> be appreciated. You can browse a syntax-highlighted version
> of the notation manual here:
>
> http://abou-samra.fr/highlighting-demo/notation/index.html
>
> For comparison, this is the current notation manual:
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/index.html
>
> The main questions are: what do you think of the principle?
> And is the color scheme good enough?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jean