Discussion: greyscale
gvwilson opened this issue · comments
Please vote up or down on CRC Press's proposal to print the book in greyscale. (Sample attached.)
I would personally prefer color for the syntax highlighting (assuming there will be some applied?). I am OK with grayscale if most others want it, but think it looks less engaging, e.g.:
I was originally going to say, yea greyscale is fine... but didn't even check into the syntax highlighting that @joelostblom brought up... So I am going to agree with Joel about colour just for that reason.
Also, partly related... why do some of the images look smaller? We fixed them previously...
Yeah, we need to fix those figure sizes. Sigh.
If we do leave in greyscale, there are a few places we may need to update language-- in particular, the caption for at least one of the GitHub figures includes references to color. There may be references to color in a few other figures, too (I'm thinking of the screen caps from the packaging chapter).
This may be mitigated by explicitly stating that the figures are available online in color? It's a lackluster solution; not sure what the balance is between needing to update text vs color choice at this point.
I agree that syntax highlighting is pretty important - it's hard to parse large sections of code without it. The price differential isn't that large, so I'd be inclined to vote for color printing.
Picking up on @lwjohnst86's comment, the sample manuscript is definitely not the latest version that we sent to them. As well as the miniature figures (which we fixed), there's also a bunch of overflow text (e.g. p 326) that we also fixed previously.
@gvwilson Do we need to check that they're working with the correct version of the manuscript?