Re: Bison 3.3.91 released [beta]

[Akim Demaille]

Hi John,

Sorry for the late reply.

> Le 12 mai 2019 à 16:47, John P. Hartmann <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Akim,
> 
> I'm writing directly to you since I haven't yet installed the latest, but to 
> offer some advice and experience.

You've got caught by the Reply-To, which I put for the announcements: there are 
many addresses that are CC'd and I don't want people to answer to them all.  
That's the only occasion I set a Reply-To, sorry about that.

> First of all, my screen is a professional graphics one; that is, it is used 
> by professionals in the graphics field.  Thus, if you make anything blue, it 
> will be blue, that is, indigo; and I can hardly see that (as is the case for 
> most others).  If you make anything red, it will be red, which is at the 
> other end of the spectrum, and also a bit hard to see. When IBM developed the 
> first colour terminal, the 3279, they deliberately softened the blue and red 
> to make them visible.  I forget about the blue, but the red was described as 
> rather a bit orange.
> 
> Second, 10% of your users are colour-blind.  Be sure that your palette does 
> not fade into nothing for them.  I regret that I have no advice as to how you 
> can see something as a colour-blind person experiences it; perhaps you have.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

I have tried a few background colors on my terminal, and it's "ok".  I have not 
tested enough terminals to be sure about the right choices though.  I hope 
people will contribute more style sheets for Bison.  Bruno is offering several 
of them for Gettext 
(http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/tree/gettext-tools/styles), we 
should do the same.

With respect to color blind people, good call, thanks!  I'll ask friends of 
mine what they think about the default colors I used.

Cheers!