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The font conventions and in particular the use of blue for program texts are part of Eiffel's style conventions. Whatever rules are applied in the descriptions of other languages are not applicable here. Thanks for respecting the specific rules for Eiffel. [[User:Bertrand Meyer|B-Meyer]] 17:18, 20 August 2006 (UTC)▼
:That colour and style use would demand a short note before the first code example mentioning this. Also, in the discussion following or surrounding the text, the normal <code>computer code tag</code> should be used since using blue text in caps in body text makes the article look garsish, difficult to read, unencyclopedic and deviates from the wikipedia style guide. Also, it probably won't carry to a possible printed edition. So sure, go wild with idiomatic colours in code examples but use the conventional black-in-<code><code></code> style in the text. [[User:Mikademus|Mikademus]] 17:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)▼
::Thanks for the advice. I am applying it at the moment (include <code>), but I think that using black in the text would be confusing — the connection with the code extracts then disappears. Changing to code fonts, although this is not done in Eiffel documentation, should make the mix look less "garish" to you.▼
:I think the blue text is improper for this article because A) it's easily confused for a link and B) no other article uses it. - [[User:DNewhall|DNewhall]] 21:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)▼
These idiosyncratic blue fonts should ''really'' be removed. It doesn't make any difference what Eiffel's own documentation uses for formatting conventions: ''this'' is an article on Wikipedia, which has its own set of typographic (and other) style conventions. There would be a case for exact colors (well, as exact as web rendering can be) if this were on [[Color Forth]] or the like: i.e. something where colors are part of the actual program semantics. But that is not true of Eiffel. <font color="darkgreen">[[User:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|LotLE]]</font>×<font color="darkred" size="-2">[[User talk:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|talk]]</font> 19:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)▼
== July 2006: this page should describe the language! ==
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What's [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eiffel_programming_language&diff=52354486&oldid=51516199 wrong] with starting a sentence with "begun"? --[[User:P3d0|P3d0]] 19:57, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
== What code formatting convention should be used? ==
▲The font conventions and in particular the use of blue for program texts are part of Eiffel's style conventions. Whatever rules are applied in the descriptions of other languages are not applicable here. Thanks for respecting the specific rules for Eiffel. [[User:Bertrand Meyer|B-Meyer]] 17:18, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
▲:That colour and style use would demand a short note before the first code example mentioning this. Also, in the discussion following or surrounding the text, the normal <code>computer code tag</code> should be used since using blue text in caps in body text makes the article look garsish, difficult to read, unencyclopedic and deviates from the wikipedia style guide. Also, it probably won't carry to a possible printed edition. So sure, go wild with idiomatic colours in code examples but use the conventional black-in-<code><code></code> style in the text. [[User:Mikademus|Mikademus]] 17:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
▲::Thanks for the advice. I am applying it at the moment (include <code>), but I think that using black in the text would be confusing — the connection with the code extracts then disappears. Changing to code fonts, although this is not done in Eiffel documentation, should make the mix look less "garish" to you.
▲:I think the blue text is improper for this article because A) it's easily confused for a link and B) no other article uses it. - [[User:DNewhall|DNewhall]] 21:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
▲These idiosyncratic blue fonts should ''really'' be removed. It doesn't make any difference what Eiffel's own documentation uses for formatting conventions: ''this'' is an article on Wikipedia, which has its own set of typographic (and other) style conventions. There would be a case for exact colors (well, as exact as web rendering can be) if this were on [[Color Forth]] or the like: i.e. something where colors are part of the actual program semantics. But that is not true of Eiffel. <font color="darkgreen">[[User:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|LotLE]]</font>×<font color="darkred" size="-2">[[User talk:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|talk]]</font> 19:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
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