Re: Formatting help files

Pablo Giménez wrote:
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>> Pablo,
>> Thanks for the screenshot. I'll check into it tonight when I have
>> access to a real terminal on my Linux system at home. Do you mind
>> telling me what colorscheme and terminal you're using? Also, what type
>> of region is being applied to the text with the grey background (e.g.,
>> "TDVIM USER MANUAL")? (I'm guessing it's bold-italic, and you're using
>> a color terminal that doesn't really support italic, but displays it
>> as reverse video instead...)
>>
> Probably is this, because I was wondering why the italics doesn´t appear in
> the terminal.
> Yep it is trying to use bold italics.
> The color scheme is CodeFactory:
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3079

Pablo,
I think I understand what's going on... If I'm correct, you are unable
to hide the special characters because your terminal's default
background color is black, but its "color palette" doesn't contain
black. Note that in addition to the default "Text color" and "Background
color", color terminals have what is known as a "Color palette". The
colors in the color palette (also known as the color cube) are
completely independent of the Text color and Background color. Vim's
ctermfg/ctermbg mechanism works properly only for colors in the color
palette: thus, setting ctermbg or ctermfg to the default Background
color won't work unless the default Background color happens to be in
the color palette. In other words, the workarounds will work only if the
default background color is in the color palette.

I don't know what color terminal you're using, but I was able to
reproduce what you were seeing in gnome-terminal. I was able to fix it
by changing to a color palette that contained black...

On the gnome-terminal title bar...

Edit->Profile Preferences...

...brings up a dialog with multiple tabs. On the "Colors" tab, you can
define the default foreground and background colors with the "Text
color" and "Background color" color pickers. Under "Palette", there's a
combo box that allows you to select from a number of built-in schemes. I
was originally using "Tango", which had a couple different shades of
grey, but no black. The others (Linux console, XTerm and Rxvt) all had
black as the first color in the palette. After I had switched to "Linux
console", the workarounds were successful...

Sincerely,
Brett Stahlman

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