[Freeswitch-docs] Black background in code snippets

[Stanislav Sinyagin]

or just make a backup and roll back if needed :)

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com> wrote:
> This is the introductory help text that worries me:
>
> "You can customize the look and feel of Confluence by editing the global stylesheet. This will also _overwrite all styles defined in custom global themes_.
> Please note that the custom global stylesheet will not be applied to spaces that define their own custom stylesheet or are using a theme."
>
> Knowing how obtuse Confluence can be I want to research this to get it right so I don't wipe out the style sheet for the entire site, although I see a change I made a few months ago to make text wrap inside the code snippet macros and it didn't seem to affect everything else in Confluence. I just don't trust it any farther than I can throw it.
>
> Since today is already spoken for I won't be able to mess with this right away. The Confluence user help forums can often provide a wealth of information so that's where I will start.
>
> Bote
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>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: freeswitch-docs-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-
>> docs-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Stanislav Sinyagin
>> Sent: Monday, 15 June, 2015 10:01
>> To: FreeSWITCH Docs Team
>> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-docs] Black background in code snippets
>>
>> Monospace is completely fine -- probably it makes sense to make the
>> default font one size point smaller.
>>
>> I just want a readable document, as it's not a terminal screen and not
>> a Emacs window (I actually use Emacs, but with white background and
>> syntax hiliting turned off :-)
>>
>> Also it would be cool to have it printer-friendly, although it's
>> ridiculous to print those pages out :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I don’t know what fonts we have available.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Plus, each operating system and browser family has its own different set of
>> > fonts only some of which intersect.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Confluence limits what we can do, so don’t get your hopes too high. It’s a
>> > blunt instrument.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Bote
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: freeswitch-docs-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org
>> > [mailto:freeswitch-docs-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Mario
>> > Sent: Sunday, 14 June, 2015 14:44
>> > To: FreeSWITCH Docs Team
>> > Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-docs] Black background in code snippets
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Another possibility to provide better reading is to use a thicker font
>> > without serifs for the white letters. Keep in mind that on terminal sessions
>> > the letters are typically monospaced. Below are what it looks like now and a
>> > a couple of samples to demonstrate, I kept the point since the same (14)
>> but
>> > notice how they still take the same space. I wrote many computer books
>> for
>> > classes and had a lot of experience testing fonts and found non-serif best
>> > for commands/etc.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Current what I see now in Confluence - Courier New (note serifs):
>> >
>> > sudo chown -R yourname:yourgroup local    # Modify the owner of the
>> > /usr/local directory to yours
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Andale Mono (no serifs):
>> >
>> > sudo chown -R yourname:yourgroup local    # Modify the owner of the
>> > /usr/local directory to yours
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Monaco (I use this a lot in books for this purpose):
>> >
>> > sudo chown -R yourname:yourgroup local    # Modify the owner of the
>> > /usr/local directory to yours
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Mario G
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jun 14, 2015, at 11:24 AM, Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > the problem is, that the black code snippets pop out and my eyes have
>> > difficulty to actually detect the text on the page -- especially if
>> > there are lots of code snippets. The brain gets too much distraction
>> > and it's difficult to find the desired part on the screen.
>> >
>> > The old wiki had a light-grey background for source code, and that was
>> > quite perfect.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Really, it is the contrast between white characters and black background. I
>> > simply chose that emacs theme to emulate a "glass tty", and Anthony is a
>> > huge emacs fan.
>> >
>> > All the other choices are either black or white background, so not much
>> > choice. It's nice to make it stand out from narrative text, however.
>> >
>> > We could change the style sheet if I can ever figure out how. I haven't
>> > pursued it because there is a warning in the help about superseding
>> > everything else. I don't know if they mean it supersedes the affected
>> > element across the whole Confluence site or if it wipes out the entire style
>> > sheet except for the changes. Knowing how stupid Confluence can be in
>> other
>> > areas I wouldn't be surprised if it's the latter.
>> >
>> > I'll see about a soft charcoal color, or maybe a baby blue. :-)
>> >
>> > Bote
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: freeswitch-docs-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-
>> > docs-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Stanislav Sinyagin
>> > Sent: Sunday, 14 June, 2015 10:35
>> > To: FreeSWITCH Docs Team
>> > Subject: [Freeswitch-docs] Black background in code snippets
>> >
>> > Maybe we change the default black background to something less
>> > annoying? it really distracts from reading.
>> >
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