From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 12 18:32:39 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC81AFA1 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:32:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com (mail-pb0-f43.google.com [209.85.160.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86ABC160F for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f43.google.com with SMTP id md4so1568795pbc.16 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:32:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=Ni5BHItynTN6wqw0KGeeLjSPB4Sg+xAsy2KMKCzthuc=; b=kDbk6q7eDzNmVo65YYEDHwj4mR5kgxuHGfquGuPwnCekckQZvXRIja7+RWrLWgfcIp fshBJxAHrIJBdzEmMrHEmwkwklUc7yrq88uAHSu6SvthHV6i5td2BZPsxO+JHxQSFaJ8 mmw3RELXdnpWn37hXXEnj3pAl58fA0JMylOlg= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=Ni5BHItynTN6wqw0KGeeLjSPB4Sg+xAsy2KMKCzthuc=; b=NIuUhWBjMeBuIecGIRH54KVOF94xnKq2myAwsQGO/DSWLxjXHPPpTi2dQhNyFd80rv 9MKkD/vivNEiaFsP5fJgMoqvH7AacD1xS8d+kfmVfiftEflK6rNnLX2vobZtcc22G37t vKs68keNLtQU6IJSG/g1cpy3vzfQ4+p+PJHzLXuSfbr6IjxbC4/fJhlKj53Ite3ipmFE 4m87cGdL+8/HCoF7M5DTkNqG9TEyqByqZldO21aHzCXUSuqbGG4ycbb/l5paQ//dcA8m UMXvllyZkOZdNmA0uXfYo9/fXd7ORUYqbJhP8d7Gcnps6tAqHqdi2H+qWSGzz/aDhPGV VBqA== X-Received: by 10.68.65.165 with SMTP id y5mr6567692pbs.52.1365791558669; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:32:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.66.86.34 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:32:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44li8nabfh.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <20130412180742.3f2b220a@X220.ovitrap.com> <516820D9.4000204@astart.com> <44sj2vadas.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <44li8nabfh.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:32:08 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: RFC: Changing the documentation's font style. To: Lowell Gilbert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmWICmnZcZo+6FE59huQ3+t47eSFzGls2ZAq+17uM6/UAef0z8ksPnBNsP+6Sb5mfG/ZC2k Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:32:39 -0000 On 12 April 2013 13:47, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Most people have already configured their browsers with what they think > is a fairly good font for reading generic text. There's nothing > particularly special about our documentation that gives us knowledge > they didn't have when they made the choice. Most people have never opened the options screen of their browser, let along modified the default font. > The equation is different for people who don't know that they *can* > change their browser font settings at all. I wouldn't have thought that > there were really that many such people in the grand scheme of things, > but I'll admit that this discussion does seem to cast that assumption > into question. The vast majority of people don't know they can change their default font. -- Eitan Adler