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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:48:52 +0200
From: Susanne Ebrecht <susanne@2ndQuadrant.com>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: syntax highlight in html manual
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On 13.04.2011 17:02, Tom Lane wrote:
> FWIW, there are very few things in the world that I hate more than
> randomly multicolored text.  Almost always, some of it is unreadable
> in a particular viewing context because of poor contrast.  And as
> often as not, the stuff that does stand out isn't the most important
> parts of the text.
>
> So no, this isn't a direction I want to see the Postgres documentation
> take.
Tom,

as color blind (blue blind (tritanope)) person I just can say thanks for 
that
statement.

Colored text / background is always horrible for color blinds.
The best always is black on white or vise versa.

Susanne
P.S.: btw. my google chrome color filter usually makes the postgresql 
elephant
either green or pink

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