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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Isabell Long <issyl0@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Changing the documentation's font style.
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Isabell Long <issyl0@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> I sent this idea to the #bsddocs IRC channel a few days ago and no-one
> there objected, but here you go. I'd like to know your opinions on the
> documentation font being changed from serif to sans-serif. This would
> only affect the web-based docs, not the ones being prepared for print.

I agree that sans-serif generally looks better for web pages. That's why
I set a sans-serif font as the default in my browsers. Changing the web
pages to force a particular font is a backwards solution to the "problem."