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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Michael Glaesemann <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: elein <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 7.4 official docs : Fonts?
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:56:26 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Michael Glaesemann wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 05:10 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Can we experiment with different SGML-to-HMTL font styles to find one 
> > that's a
> > little easier on the eyes?   What I find particularly difficult are the
> > function parameter columns; the mix of "normal" italics with "bold" 
> > italics.
> >
> > Comments?  Responses?
> 
> As Peter has pointed out, the CSS can handle a lot of it. It doesn't 
> have to be hardcoded into the SGML-to-HTML transformation. One option 
> would be to use colors as well (I'm not talking a rainbow of fruit 
> flavors here :). In particular, I find italics often difficult to read 
> on the web. I'll try to get a few styles worked up by tomorrow that 

I think it is the monospace italics that really look bad.

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