Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:31:45 +0100 From: "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, Chin-San Huang <chinsan@freebsd.org>, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/share/misc docbook.css Message-ID: <e890cae60811100931s45630456w437a0281664834b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87fxlza3tj.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <200811090424.mA94OlN6087438@repoman.freebsd.org> <20081109084551.GB1058@gothic.blackend.org> <87hc6gbz3t.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081109192507.GB1030@gothic.blackend.org> <87k5bc4ovw.fsf@kobe.laptop> <1226311326.84196.1.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <87fxlza3tj.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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2008/11/10 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:02:06 +0000, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 22:37 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>>On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 20:25:07 +0100, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> The new x-config.html is fine for me. >>>> For the new install-pre.html, the way <important></important> is >>>> rendered looks oldish, maybe using the same scheme as for >>>> <warning></warning> might do the trick. >>> >>> The bold red text is kind of `old school' for me too. I'll wait to see >>> if there are flames^W^H err, objections about the rest and update the >>> <important> style too :) >> >> FWIW, I like the look of the new style sheet nore than the old one, but >> do agree with Marc about the new font used on <important> - I assume >> this is due to the removal of "font-family: arial;" from >> BLOCKQUOTE.IMPORTANT. > > It's the line-height that makes things look funny. How about something > that makes Important notes stand out a bit like this version? > > http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/bsd-css/2008.11.10/install-pre.html > > The changes to the `blockquote.IMPORTANT' class are: > > * Remove `color: red', `font-family: arial', `font-weight: bold' and > the custom `line-height'. > > * Add a bit of padding to avoid bumping into any <blockquote> borders. > > * Add a red border with a thick left side that highlights the block. > > This way the font family is the same as the rest of the text and it > doesn't look weird if your default sans-serif font is, say, DejaVu > instead of Arial :) > > [ I'm undecided between making .IMPORTANT stand out with a red > background and this. A red background seems like something that can > hurt my eyes if I stare at it for a long time. This is _different_ that > the rest of the .NOTE, .EXAMPLE and so on. ] > > The result looks reasonable to me. I would not use an entirely red background for the warnings: they scream too much that way. I wonder if there are any standards on text formatting... Regards, Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net)
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