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Re: color in the manual
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Mats Bengtsson |
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Re: color in the manual |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:49:55 +0200 |
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Graham Percival wrote:
I'm not overly enthusiastic about adding color to the manual: I'm not
certain how it will look in a printed pdf (many people print the docs)
or in the info files. We obviously need to use color in the doc
section about color, and the red staff-lines in Ancient notation will
show up as black anyway in print, but I'm worried about adding color
to the main manual.
As you may already have noticed, I added colors according to Kieren's
suggestion
in GIT. Based on my experience from writing research articles, colors in
the
figures is just positive, as long as you make sure that
- No colors are too light so the figure is readable also when printed in
B/W.
- You use also other methods to distinguish between different cases, as
we do
here with the note head shapess, so no information is lost when you
print in B/W.
For this specific case, I expect the printed version to be just as
readable as the
old purely black version, since all the colors are dark enough. For the
on-line
version it's a clear impovement, in my opinion.
/Mats