Re: Website patch request: documentation style update

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Website patch request: documentation style update
Date: 2020-04-18 20:21:50
Message-ID: 13726.1587241310@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> On 4/18/20 3:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Also, now that I look at it, I see the website style seems to be rendering
>> parents and brackets in the same font as the <code> items anyway. This
>> does not seem like an improvement over what happens without that.

> So, it seems like it's the same font, but it's a trompe-l'oeil: it is
> the default font of the site (Open Sans). However, it appears the
> old-style docs use a different browser/OS dependent font in "verdana".
> When I force it to verdana, we get the attached (enum_first has verdana,
> enum_list has Open Sans). This seems to get the desired effect on the
> function definition line, but it sets the descriptions to be verdana,
> which seems to clash with the rest of the site.

Hm. Let's just leave that alone for now. I agree that rendering these
in a subtly different font would be a bit weird.

Did you determine whether we're actually forcing a smaller font in
these tables?

regards, tom lane

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