Feedback for The Java® Language Specification

[Sergiusz Wolicki]

Dear Colleagues,

Section 2.4 of the Java Language specification
<https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se24/html/jls-2.html> describes
the notation used to present the grammar of the language. It advises that
terminal symbols are shows in a fixed width non-italic font. However, the
examples in the section do not visually differentiate between terminals and
non-terminals, at least not to me. I have looked at the page in Firefox,
Edge, and Chrome. The terminals "if", "break", parentheses, and semicolon
look the same as non-terminal. They look italic to me. This problem makes
the section pretty confusing. Here are two screenshots from two browsers:

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Interestingly, the actual grammar snippets in later chapters of the
specification look correct.


Thanks and best regards,
Sergiusz Wolicki
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