[Oberon] Italicization of comments and emboldening of keywords.

[Dieter]

Am 30.07.2017 um 02:35 schrieb Chris Burrows:
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>> peter at easthope.ca
>> Sent: Sunday, 30 July 2017 12:56 AM
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>> Subject: [Oberon] Italicization of comments and emboldening of
>> keywords.
>>
>> Where were these conventions applied?  All of V4, BB, CP and GPCP?
>> Some of these?  In a given context, what was the level of adoption?
>>
> It is only feasible to apply italicization of comments and emboldening of
> keywords on systems that have prettyprinting software (e.g. V4 and BB) or
> can be used with an editor with syntax-highlighting capabilities (e.g.
> GPCP).

ETHOberon Plugin for Windows has the prettyprinter "OFormatter" of 
Günter Feldmann.
The sourcecode was included in one of my previous mails.
>   Such styling would be too laborious to maintain manually. These tools
> are usually configurable and include colouring capabilities as well. The
> conventions adopted with any of these systems are heavily influenced by the
> *default* configurations set by the author.
>
> With a syntax-highlighting editor the 'level of adoption' of any convention
> has little meaning. The appearance of the source code is just a 'view' of
> the code. The contents of the source code file is just plain text - it
> doesn't contain any embedded font attributes. The view is updated
> instantaneously as the source code is changed. How it appears to you just
> depends on how you have configured the viewer. Similar to the way that world
> might appear to be black and white to some people but it looks very
> different to those who are wearing rose-tinted glasses ;-)
>
> The *default* syntax-highlighting options in CPIde (our IDE for GPCP) are:
>
> * Reserved Words: Dark Blue / Bold
> * Comments: Gray / Italic
> * SYSTEM functions:  Red / Bold
> * Strings: Green / Normal.
> etc.
>
> Consequently, unterminated strings can be easily spotted; comments are
> visible but are easily differentiated from actual code - useful if (heaven
> forbid!) you are in the habit of commenting-out code.
>
> On the other hand SYSTEM functions deliberately really stand out.
>
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> http://www.cfbsoftware.com/CPIde
>
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Regards, Dieter