Thank you, @b4n!

With your help and a fair amount of experimentation, I have been able to 
discover a few things:

1. This may be different in different DEs, but on my desktop (Cinnamon) the 
call_tips are entirely unaffected by whatever I put in the call_tips line. The 
calltips are determined by the "Applications" theme, so no matter what I put in 
my conf file, the calltips do not change. If `default=FGcolor;BGcolor` and I 
define `call_tips=BGcolor;FGcolor;true;true`  (intending reverse video, similar 
to at least some other schemes) there is no change whatever I put for the 
values of FGcolor or BGcolor. But if I go to Preferences>Themes and change 
from, e.g., Mint-Y-Dark-Sand to Mint-Y-Dark-Red, the calltips do change 
(dramatically). I'll plan to leave something more or less sane in the conf file 
in case it makes a difference in some other DE.
2. I'm still not too sure how to reproduce whatever effect string_eol is 
supposed to have. I'll keep looking for languages like that and see what I can 
manage.
3. Labels are quite fascinating. I was not seeing anything because I was using 
a construct like:`label=keyword;;true` which shows up (in a Makefile, for 
example) in the default color (NOT the keyword color), though it is bold. OTOH, 
using `label=keyword,bold,italic` does result in labels that are in the 
"keyword" color as well as being bold and italic. This surprised me since 
`comment=dark_green;;;true` does make comments dark green and italic, but 
`comment=dark_green,italic` basically turns off comments, leaving them in the 
default color with no italics.
4. I don't really use python, but at least decorator seems to work as 
advertised, so `decorator=string_1,bold` does give the expected result. and 
most of the other schemes seem to use the string color for decorator, so I 
guess that must, at least, not be a glaring error. :)

Anyway, that is what I have so far. I appreciate the help.
Paul


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