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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Colors for pre elem. on orgmode.org
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:04:30 +0100
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To: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
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Hi Sebastian,

can you point to a page where you think the stuff is badly readable?

- Carsten

On Nov 15, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Sebastian Rose wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> the colors on orgmode.org are made from an Emacs setup with a dark
> background.
>
> Because of the light background on the Web, code examples with syntax
> highlighting are hard to read. I even avoid #+BEGIN_SRC and use
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE instead.
>
>
> I played a little locally, and found, that the following simple change
> makes highlighted source code readable. Just put this in an exported
> HTML file, just before the `</head>' tag and keep the original  
> styles in
> place, to see the results:
>
>
> <style type="text/css">
> pre {
>    background-color:#333333;
>    color:white;
> }
> </pre>
>
> These are just the changed values.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, this changes the appearance significantly. Dark
> background for all code.
>
>
>
> As an alternative, we could change all foreground colors, in that we
> keep the tint, but reduce the brightness of each. That way we would  
> keep
> the appearance and have readable code. I've changed the background  
> to be
> slightly lighter. Just put this in an exported HTML file, just before
> the `</head>' tag and keep the original styles in place, to see the
> results:
>
>
> <style type="text/css">
>
> pre {
>    /* only the changed values for <pre> again */
>    background-color:#fafafa;
>
>    /* Use bigger font? courier is soo small on my system: */
>    font-size:110%;
> }
>
>
> .org-string   { color:#BC2020; }
> .org-builtin  { color:#5C2659; }
> .org-keyword  { color:#5C128A; }
> .org-doc      { color:#754C4C; }
> .org-constant { color:#385D5E; }
>
> .org-variable-name { color:#805F11; }
> .org-function-name { color:#0000CC; }
>
> </style>
>
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> How is the font-size of code on Windows and MAC (Safari)?
>
>
>
>  Sebastian
>
>
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- Carsten