Re: [Maxima-discuss] Syntax coloring of the manual

[Stavros M. <mac...@gm...>]

Ah, that does look terrible. I guess the idea was that command-like symbols
(plot_format, grid, etc.) would be highlighted differently from arguments.
But why are box and triangle in command color?

I'm not a huge fan of syntax colorization, and if it's got to be done, why
are we using such garish colors?

Anyway, what I would prefer *instead* of coloring would be better
indentation, to make it easy to see the structure. In this example:

(%i1) set_plot_option ([grid, 30, 40]);
(%o1) [[plot_format, gnuplot_pipes], [grid, 30, 40],
[run_viewer, true], [axes, true], [nticks, 29], [adapt_depth, 5],
[color, blue, red, green, magenta, black, cyan],
[point_type, bullet, box, triangle, plus, times, asterisk],
[palette, [gradient, green, cyan, blue, violet],
[gradient, magenta, violet, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange,
red, brown, black]], [gnuplot_preamble, ], [gnuplot_term, default]]


On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM Jaime Villate via Maxima-discuss <
max...@li...> wrote:

>
> On 07/07/25 21:25, Raymond Toy wrote:
>
> On 7/7/25 12:48 PM, Jaime Villate via Maxima-discuss wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The syntax coloring in the HTML version of the manual seems very odd to
> me. Some random keywords appear in red or blue. In my opinion, it would
> look better without any coloring at all.
>
> Can you point out an example of this?
>
> Sure, look at the attachment.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaime
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