From: | "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> |
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To: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [DOCS] 7.4 official docs : Fonts? |
Date: | 2003-11-28 08:33:16 |
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At 2:11 PM +0900 11/20/03, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 12:56 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>>Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>>>
>>>On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 05:10 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>>Can we experiment with different SGML-to-HMTL font styles to find one
>>>>that's a
>>>>little easier on the eyes? What I find particularly difficult are the
>>>>function parameter columns; the mix of "normal" italics with "bold"
>>>>italics.
>>>>
>>>>Comments? Responses?
>>>
>>>As Peter has pointed out, the CSS can handle a lot of it. It doesn't
>>>have to be hardcoded into the SGML-to-HTML transformation. One option
>>>would be to use colors as well (I'm not talking a rainbow of fruit
>>>flavors here :). In particular, I find italics often difficult to read
>>>on the web. I'll try to get a few styles worked up by tomorrow that
>>
>>I think it is the monospace italics that really look bad.
>
>I'd have to agree with you. Making them a color other than the text
>(black) or the links (blue/purple depending on your eyes) would set
>them off quite well. Serif fonts at small sizes can also be pretty
>nasty, though this isn't an issue with the PostgreSQL docs.
Color works well on-screen with html. Small-point-size italics are
hard to read on-screen, agreed.
Italics work well on B&W printout with PDF. (In general. I'm not
looking at the specific example.)
Can you map things somehow to get the best of both worlds?
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