Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837C5632D2D for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:26:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 55602-01 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:25:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BF6632C53 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:26:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8AKPu2L029721; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:25:56 -0400 (EDT) To: Thom Brown cc: Magnus Hagander , Bruce Momjian , PostgreSQL www Subject: Re: [DOCS] Doc fixes and improvements In-reply-to: References: <201009101336.o8ADae526636@momjian.us> <29333.1284149151@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Thom Brown message dated "Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:11:29 +0100" Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:25:56 -0400 Message-ID: <29720.1284150356@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201009/36 X-Sequence-Number: 19123 Thom Brown writes: > On 10 September 2010 21:05, Tom Lane 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. regards, tom lane