Cherrytree: Style monospace text

[philogit]

Currently, plain-text and monospace-styled text are difficult to distinguish from one another within Cherrytree. Would you consider adding a style to monospace-styled text so that either it either (1) has a grey background or (2) has a border around the text--as is typically found when styling monospace markup output?

Here is an example of what I'm suggesting: ctrl-c, ctrl-v, if...then

[giuspen]

Hi, I understand your need, the difficulty here is that the text background
and foreground is configurable so I have to implement a way to handle this
automatically... I'll think about this
On 9 Jun 2015 21:40, "philogit" [email protected] wrote:

Currently, plain-text and monospace-styled text are difficult to
distinguish from one another within Cherrytree. Would you consider adding a
style to monospace-styled text that either (1) uses a grey background or
(2) places a border around the text--as is typically found when styling
markup output?

Here is an example of what I'm suggesting: ctrl-c, ctrl-v, if...then

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[philogit]

I see your point, and perhaps a first iteration should just avoid color issues by drawing a border around the text that is set to the same color as the current text color. Here is an example, taken from Wikipedia > Help:Wiki markup. (I set the border color to black vs #ddd that they use.)

As you pointed out, automating good color selection for the background or border would require more work. Here are some possibly useful topics that I found in case you explore that option.

• Determine font color based on background color
• Color schemes generation - theory and algorithms
• How to automatically generate N “distinct” colors?
• How to Choose Colours Procedurally (Algorithms)

[giuspen]

Actually a border around the monospaced text is not trivial with the
current library (gtk2), so a different color background would be probably
more feasible.
I will add this to the backlog and I'll think about what is the best
solution.
On 13 Jun 2015 21:20, "philogit" [email protected] wrote:

I see your point, and perhaps a first iteration should just avoid color
issues by drawing a border around the text that is set to the same color as
the current text color. Here is an example, taken from Wikipedia >
Help:Wiki markup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup#Text_formatting. (I set
the border color to black vs #ddd that they use.)

[image: screenshot from 2015-06-13 13 08 57]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/12819820/8145822/6d85f236-11cd-11e5-9d97-6fabc3343130.png

As you pointed out, automating good color selection for the background or
border would require more work. Here are some possibly useful topics that I
found in case you explore that option.

• Determine font color based on background color
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1855884/determine-font-color-based-on-background-color
• Color schemes generation - theory and algorithms
  https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/44929/color-schemes-generation-theory-and-algorithms
• How to automatically generate N “distinct” colors?
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/470690/how-to-automatically-generate-n-distinct-colors
• How to Choose Colours Procedurally (Algorithms)
  http://devmag.org.za/2012/07/29/how-to-choose-colours-procedurally-algorithms/

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[philogit]

As an incremental improvement, what if you were to add a preference that allowed the user to configure their preferred font for the monospace property? This would allow the user to selected a monospace font that satisfactorally contrasts with the font used for the plain-text property.

Suggested menu location: Preferences > Fonts > Monospace Font

[zgstyle]

+1
I also miss this.
Screen shot of my current CherryTree fonts

[philogit]

@zgstyle : If you're looking for inline code styling, have a look at TiddlyWiki. It requires dealing with wiki-style plain text code editing vs WYSIWYG editing in CherryTree, but the trade off may be worth it to get the inline code feature.

[golimarrrr]

If the application is taking the default GTK style for monospace font, then it can probably be changed in one of the gtkrc files (system-wide, per user, per application, ...)

[txe]

It was actually resolved (monospace font, monospace background)