<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Last week I did the change to enclose printIt output in double quotes, and I used it like that for a couple of days. I didn’t really like it, but perhaps I’m just not used to it. It colored the printIt output with the gray color that I use for comments, and for some reason it didn’t feel right to me.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Another thing that seems to cause problems with highlighting is my habit of neglecting to type the last dot in the last sentence, because it’s optional in Smalltalk and I never type it… but then it confuses the syntax highlighter, even if I leave several empty lines between fragments of code, it seems.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It’s weird that my change doesn’t work for you. I just tried it in the latest image and it doesn’t seem to work, but it works in my project image and I can’t figure out why it fails in the stock image. See the attached change set. I guess it would be more correct to change TextColor>>dominates: adding "or: [other isForShout and: [self isForShout not]]", or something like that... but still, why doesn't it work? If some part of the text has attributes that dominate over shout attributes it shouldn't change them, right? Is this a bug?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>BTW, I'm not pushing to adopt my change, I don't know yet what's the best solution.<br></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 15:23 Juan Vuletich <<a href="mailto:juan@cuis.st" target="_blank">juan@cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Please see inline.<br>
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On 6/2/2023 10:09 AM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
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I couldn't get that idea to work. Would you attach a changeset?<br>
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In any case, another simple but maybe less comfortable solution is
to enclose the result in double quotes, making it comment.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Of course the above is completely wrong, because I conflated two
issues you raised.<br>
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Your solution works well to avoid styling the result of a printIt as
if it was Smalltalk code. But it doesn't address the other issue you
raised, that is, after that point, the styling of the rest of the
workspace is messed up.<br>
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My suggestion (modifying #printIt to enclose the result in double
quotes) actually addresses both issues: comments are not styled, and
smalltalk code after them is styled correctly. Maybe we'd push this
instead?</div><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><br>
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Thanks,<br>
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<div dir="auto">Oh, just after sending this email I gave it
another try and found a simple solution. In
SmalltalkEditor>>#printIt I set the color of the output
text to Theme current text, and I changed
TextColor>>dominates: adding “or: [other isForShout]”.
That’s all :)</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at
11:59 Luciano Notarfrancesco <<a href="mailto:luchiano@gmail.com" target="_blank">luchiano@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">I’ve been thinking how to prevent the
printIt output to be syntax highlighted. I think it’s
best to do that because the output is not Smalltalk
code, so the syntax highlighter gets it almost always
wrong. It could be a preference, or it could be
specified in the printOn: methods that know that the
output is not Smalltalk code. What do you think? How
would you implement it? A new text attribute makes sense
to you or do you have any other idea?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 1 Jun 2023
at 20:53 Luciano Notarfrancesco <<a href="mailto:luchiano@gmail.com" target="_blank">luchiano@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Oh, that’s great, using subpixel
antialiasing just solved the problem! Thanks!</div>
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<div dir="auto">I’ll try NeoEuler. It would be nice
to have fallback fonts too… some math glyphs are
missing in DejaVu… but it’s not a big deal.
Another minor aesthetic problem is that the syntax
highlighter sometimes gets confused with the
output of printIt, perhaps would be better to not
apply syntax highlighting to the output, or to
have the option to “lock” the output text in some
printOn: methods so that the syntax highlighter
doesn’t change it (perhaps a new attribute? not
sure if this makes sense). Also sometimes the
underscores are not converted to arrows in a
workspace, perhaps this is related to the syntax
highlighter getting confused.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks!</div>
<div dir="auto">Luciano</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 1 Jun
2023 at 17:42 Juan Vuletich <<a href="mailto:juan@cuis.st" target="_blank">juan@cuis.st</a>>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hi
Luciano,<br>
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On 5/30/2023 9:06 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco
via Cuis-dev wrote:
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<div>BTW, in case anyone is curious,
here is how matrices look when
printing them on a workspace with
cmd-p. I draw matrices over the binary
field in a special way (first
screenshot), and I scale them down if
they are too big.</div>
<div>I did this because it was hard to
make matrices look good when printing
them as text, so instead I draw them
on a form and embed the form when
printing them. I only do this with
matrices, they are especially
problematic when printing because they
print with more than one line, they
are the only objects in my system that
need more than one line for printing.
When I printed them as text with more
than one line, printing a list of
matrices (for example an array of
matrices, as in the example where I
print a basis of a vector space in the
screenshots) they would look horrible.
Now a list of matrices is printed in a
single line as expected, and the point
size of the enclosing parentheses is
adjusted automatically (I have
messages
Stream>>#withParentheses:,
#withBrackets:, #withAngleBrackets:,
etc, that do this automatically).</div>
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It looks beautiful!<br>
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<div>I still have two little problems
that I might want to tweak:</div>
<div>1) the parentheses are too thick,
setting the point size is not the
right thing to do, maybe we need a new
text attribute for scaling text
without changing the point size?;</div>
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The easiest solution is to use a different
font, just for the parentheses. For example,
NeoEuler parentheses are much lighter at
large point sizes.<br>
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<div>2) matrices inside matrices loose
the transparent background, the
background becomes black, as you see
in the example in the second
screenshot.<br>
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I guess this should be fixable. If you can
prepare an image with such example for me to
play with, I'll give it a try. For example
(not sure if related) VectorEngine can do
blending over translucent backgrounds, but
only if subpixel sampling is used. I know,
there is no relation between these two
features... But I wanted to keep options to
a small number, and usually we only use
cheaper whole pixel AA and cheaper alpha
blending that can't blend over translucent
backgrounds. So, maybe just using the
SubPixel engine solves this problem, or I'll
be happy to take a look.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On
Tue, May 30, 2023 at 7:27 PM Luciano
Notarfrancesco <<a href="mailto:luchiano@gmail.com" target="_blank">luchiano@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div>This change set fixes a little
bug in VectorCanvas that cames up
when using the canvas to draw text
with images on a form (outside
morphic). I do this to draw
matrices, and when drawing a
matrix whose coefficients are also
matrices this came up. The fix is
simply checking that the world is
not nil.<br>
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Integrated and at GitHub. Thanks!<br>
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Cheers, <br>
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