On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:15:45PM +0200, Ralf Angeli wrote: > * Josh Triplett (2011-05-09) writes: > > > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:40:39PM +0200, Ralf Angeli wrote: > >> > >> I'd say yes. Fontifying the whole macro looks more consistent to me > >> than fontifying only the part after the backslash. > > > > Doing so makes the '\' look like a '|'. > > I'm using DejaVu Sans Mono with a size of 17 pixels here and the two > characters can be distinguished easily. Maybe the font you are using is > suboptimal?
DejaVu Sans Mono here as well. I can distinguish the characters, but I wouldn't say "easily"; it takes staring at the unusual-looking italic '\' more than once. :) > Also, in which context or use case would it be a big problem if the > characters where not easily distinguishable? In my case, I encountered this problem when staring at a complex TeX macro, which ran several commands in a row, along the lines of \foo\it\bar\baz. The italic '\' characters caused by the formatting of \it caused me quite a bit of confusion when trying to decipher it, until I figured out that they really did represent backslashes. It took me some time to parse the \it in the first place, since I didn't see the characteristic '\'. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
