<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><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 11:59 Luciano Notarfrancesco <<a href="mailto:luchiano@gmail.com">luchiano@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><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><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><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></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">Oh, that’s great, using subpixel antialiasing just solved the problem! Thanks!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><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><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks!</div><div dir="auto">Luciano</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><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>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><u></u>
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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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