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From: Henry B. Hotz <[email protected]>
To: Michael Glaesemann <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOCS] 7.4 official docs : Fonts?
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:33:16 -0800
Message-ID: <p0521061cbbecb7fc9778@[192.168.0.134]> (raw)
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At 2:11 PM +0900 11/20/03, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 12:56 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>I'd have to agree with you. Making them a color other than the text 
>(black) or the links (blue/purple depending on your eyes) would set 
>them off quite well. Serif fonts at small sizes can also be pretty 
>nasty, though this isn't an issue with the PostgreSQL docs.

Color works well on-screen with html.  Small-point-size italics are 
hard to read on-screen, agreed.

Italics work well on B&W printout with PDF.  (In general.  I'm not 
looking at the specific example.)

Can you map things somehow to get the best of both worlds?
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