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Re: [abnf-discuss] ABNF syntax highlighting in rfc2629.xslt

Paul Kyzivat <paul.kyzivat@comcast.net> Wed, 16 May 2018 15:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [abnf-discuss] ABNF syntax highlighting in rfc2629.xslt
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On 5/16/18 9:13 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> FYI: I recently added support for ABNF syntax highlighting to my xml2rfc 
> formatter.
> 
> Example output:
> 
>    <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc5234.html#rfc.section.4>
> 
> This uses Google's "prettify", with an extension for IETF ABNF 
> (<https://github.com/google/code-prettify/pull/542>).
> 
> Feedback appreciated.

Maybe its just my eyes. I can barely discern the color differences. If I 
really strain I can see that the comments are "red" and the quoted 
strings are perhaps "green". But the differences are subtle - not 
sufficient to help in reading the abnf.

Could you choose colors that have more contrast?

	Thanks,
	Paul

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