From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Doc fixes and improvements
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:46:12 -0700
Message-ID: <1284151572.5188.40.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009102042.o8AKgoh15182@momjian.us>
References: <201009102042.o8AKgoh15182@momjian.us>
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 16:42 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Thom Brown wrote:
> > Yes, according to these, the proportional font defaults to 16px:
> > http://nst.sourceforge.net/nst/docs/tech/ch02s04.html
> > http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080211131203AA6CErK
>
> OK, so why are we not just setting the fixed-width font to be the same
> size as the proportional? We are mixing the two types in the same
> paragraph, so why not just set them the same? Using the javascript I
> sent, you can probe for the preference settings.
Generally monospace is kept smaller than proportional (if it is larger,
that is wrong). Mono is easy to read all the way down to 8pt (not that I
am recommending that).
Joshua D. Drake
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