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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Doc fixes and improvements
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:22:30 -0700
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On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 21:11 +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
> On 10 September 2010 21:05, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> >> Ok, Thom has merged these changes onto the current website code, and
> >> I've put it up on http://magnus.webdev.postgresql.org - note that you
> >> need to go back to 8.3 to actually see anything, because the db
> >> doesn't have the latest docs.
> >
> > You know, I hate to say it, but this is just way too busy for my taste.
> > The typography is screaming "look at me" instead of staying out of the
> > way.  I can't imagine wanting to read any large amount of docs in this
> > presentation.
> >
> > Maybe I'm in the minority.
> 
> Do you have any specific recommendations?  What would tone it down?

I find it very pleasant. It reminds me of the python docs which are nice
to read as well.

Joshua D. Drake

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