Re: Info faces

[Miles Bader]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > >   Info-title-1-face   --  yellow + bold
> > > >   Info-title-2-face   --  light blue + bold
> > > >   Info-title-3-face   --  just bold
> > 
> > The red on my console is rather less bright than yellow, so I would vote
> > for this.
> 
> Okay, but it still leaves me with the the problem of
> Info-title-2-face: I actually wanted to get "blue1" there, not
> "lightblue" in its rgb.txt interpretation, because the latter maps to
> cyan, which I think might be unpleasant on light-background tty's.  Is
> "blue1" okay for Info-title-2-face?

Er, not really.

As a matter of act, `yellow' is also quite horrible on a light-background
tty (at least in an xterm).

I don't think you can really get away with using one set of faces for both.

I guess the problem is that there's no good automatic way of setting the
emacs background-mode on a tty.  The only thing I can think of is to
continue to assume ttys are dark-background (because that's true for real
terminals and most PC consoles), but add some kind of special hack (I know
not what) for xterms & other X terminal emulators, which are the main cases
of light-background ttys that I can think of.  People telneting in from a
macintosh will just have to learn how to customize frame-background-mode...

-Miles
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