Re: [DOCS] Doc fixes and improvements

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
>> On 10 September 2010 21:05, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> You know, I hate to say it, but this is just way too busy for my taste.
>>> The typography is screaming "look at me" instead of staying out of the
>>> way.  I can't imagine wanting to read any large amount of docs in this
>>> presentation.
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm in the minority.
>
>> Do you have any specific recommendations?  What would tone it down?
>
> I still think the colored backgrounds are overused, and there's way too
> much bold text.  AFAICS all the fixed-width-font text is now bold too,
> to no improvement in readability.

It's way too much boldface for my taste, too. I am not sure I agree
that the colored backgrounds are overused.

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