On 25 Jul 2008, at 20:15, Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:

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>> See attachments.
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>> The idea is to use less contrast for the pilcrow.  The  
>> whitespace.el colors do the exact opposite: they emphasize the  
>> whitespace over the normal text, which is great if and only if you  
>> want to just check whitespace and then turn it off again.
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> Hmmm, yes, it looks good, but lightgrey is a problem with dark  
> background and a white foreground, as lightgrey and white have low  
> contrast.

Low contrast is precisely what I wanted to achieve.
The extra paragraph marks don't need to stand out.  The text being  
edited needs to be prominent.