From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Doc fixes and improvements
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:10:48 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <201009112110.o8BLAmX14329@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimob2Q_JbvHyGW0-C6GhuuUKEc+18x+bRBs_w_U@mail.gmail.com>
Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
> >> On 10 September 2010 21:05, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >>> 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 still think the colored backgrounds are overused, and there's way too
> > much bold text. ?AFAICS all the fixed-width-font text is now bold too,
> > to no improvement in readability.
>
> It's way too much boldface for my taste, too. I am not sure I agree
> that the colored backgrounds are overused.
I think you should look at Thom's version, which is more current:
http://pgweb.darkixion.com:8081/docs/8.4/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html
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