On Sun, Sep 14, 1997 at 06:05:47PM -0400, Mark Eichin wrote: > > > high contrast. That's why books are printed on white paper and not > > (1) Paper Doesn't *GLOW*
Second! > (2) spurious argument (the history has *nothing* to do with contrast: > black ink has less variation than white; printing white on black paper > would be hard by comparison, and it isn't really known if it would be > an improvement overall. yellow or green on black is *much* higher > contrast than black on white...) This reminds me of my german teacher: He used *yellow* chalks on the darkgreen-"black"board, to improve readability, although the yellow chalk was harder to remove from the board. I think, the good ol' Braunsche Röhre is not the best choice anymore. When will we have the super-eyefriendly screen? > Nonetheless, I'm happy to let the web-team make whatever choices they > like; as long as the information is there, I can get it out from under > their formatting :-) Let them not choose white on white :-) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
