[Oberon] Syntax highlighting justified?

Paul Reed paulreed at paddedcell.com
Thu Nov 21 19:15:40 CET 2024


Hi Peter,

> A recent edit of Oberon/V2/Input in the wikibook replaced my style tag
> with tag 'syntaxhighlight lang="oberon2"'.

Ugh! For so many reasons.

> You'll see that the edit was made from an address rather than from an
> authenticated account.

Maybe it was an AI. :)

> My original styling was crafted to imitate the appearance in Wirth's
> book.  Black text in the Times New Roman font. syntaxhighlight uses a
> Helvetica (?) font with keywords colored green.

Personally I agree with where you're coming from. Also in my experience 
Prof. Wirth was pretty scathing about arguments which in the end boiled 
down to matters of taste.

HTH,
Paul


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