Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:15:01 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20040728111501.GA21300@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20040728105822.GD52195@hub.freebsd.org> References: <200407281011.i6SABwac090675@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040728105443.GA19031@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20040728105822.GD52195@hub.freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2004-07-28 10:58, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 01:54:43PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > I meant to ask a while ago, when I saw similar commits, but I postponed > > it and then forgot to ask. When is it considered good style to remove > > the frames from tables? Does the choise depend on the output format or > > is there some other reason? > > Frames never look good in print output. The stylesheets are braindead > and there is no padding between the contents and the border. Even if > that is manually added in the TeX processing stage, it still looks out > of place because for print output you just want the line separating > the column headers from the data -- anything else and the page looks > too cluttered at best, and like a printed web page at worst. True. I'll keep this in mind. > As for HTML output, I don't feel too strongly either way. I don't > think with or without frames makes too much of a difference. I tend to prefer 'without' (or, at least, when frames *are* present, a style with a very slight possibility of being distracting to the eye). I'm not going to stand in the way of anyone who adds or removes frames to HTML output though. Thanks for a very fast reply :)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040728111501.GA21300>