Hi
Speaking as someone whose eyesight isn't quite as good as it used to be,
I'd like to suggest that anything in a colour is also in bold so that there
are enough pixels for me to see what the colour is.
And this seems the appropriate place to ask why the examples are all in
fixed pitch Courier in any case. I know this is kind of industry standard
but it's one I don't find particularly helpful. I was once adept on the
card punch machines and mechanical typewriters, but I think most of us
abandoned fixed pitch fonts long, long ago. I'd suggest a sans serif font
so that there's a clear contrast with the Georgia used as the text font in
the documentation. Helvetica, Franklin Gothic and Source Sans Pro look good
but I realize they might not be available on some platforms.
HTH
Paul McKay
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 23:33, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Flaming Hakama by Elaine <ela...@flaminghakama.com> writes:
>
> > In this sense, it seems like the place that has the most potential use
> > for helping people distinguish different data types is where the
> > syntax is the most complicated and dense, which is in music entry.
> >
> > The ability to quickly distinguish articulations, dynamics, notes, and
> > durations seems like it would probably be most useful to people
> > reading examples in docs, since that is the most unusual aspect of
> > lilypond syntax.
>
> I find splitting a8 into different colors about as helpful for reading
> music as coloring note stems differently would be for reading score
> sheets: there is a standard place they are attached to anyway and there
> is no particular reason to look elsewhere.
>
> It would be much more useful to highlight note lengths separated by
> space but still common to a preceding note or rest, like
>
> \drummode { bd4 r r 4. 8 }
>
> where the 4. is sucked into the second r likely unintentionally.
> Highlighting this is helpful. When there is a general "angry fruit
> salad" flavor pervading the highlighting with lots of colors everywhere,
> there just is not a lot of attention one can draw to actually important
> things.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>
>
