Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx slang vs (n)curses

[Foteos Macrides]

Klaus Weide <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>
>> Rob Partington - Admin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >My code doesn't add color support for ncurses the same as the vanilla
>> >slang version does - it provides for color styles (IMO more powerful than
>> >the vanilla slang version).  The vanilla slang color support is trickery -
>> >underline is mapped to color 1, bold to color 2, underline+bold to 3 etc.
>> 
>>      I presume the colorization and styling will work the same
>> when the RP code is compiled and linked with either ncurses or slang,
>> not the nicer, new way with ncurses, and the not as nice, old way
>> with slang.  Is that right?
>
>Even better would be to have a choice...
>
>I think it is an advantage that I don't have to (if I don't want to)
>specify color pairs on a HTML element by element basis, but can do a
>less refined but more global translation (rather like what Fote 
>described for his settings).

        Yes, but with Rob's styling mods, you should be able to, for
example, assign different colors to the various emphasis tags, and
distiguish them, instead of having them all be underline, or all be
ever-so-lovely, sky-blue (though, after what I'm used to after all
these years, I probably *would* make them all blue 8-).


>PS. regarding the nonsense I wrote earlier I forgot to explicitly say
>that I am sorry for any confusion I may have caused, and if this was
>a newsgroup I would certainly go and cancel that message...

        That's OK.  I figured it must be a typo (and didn't hurt myself
when I fell out of my armchair; and who am I to complain about typos! :).

                                Fote

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