Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 08:09:03 -0600
From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Doc: Rework contrib appendix -- informative titles, tweaked
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 08:11:43 -0600
"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.com> wrote:

> Attached are 2 v9 patch versions.  I don't think I like them.
> I think the v8 versions are better.  But I thought it
> wouldn't hurt to show them to you.
> 
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:22:25 -0600
> "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.com> wrote:
> 
> > Attached are 2 alternatives:
> > (They touch separate files so the ordering is meaningless.)
> > 
> > 
> > v8-0001-List-trusted-and-obsolete-extensions.patch
> > 
> > Instead of putting [trusted] and [obsolete] in the titles
> > of the modules, like v7 does, add a list of them into the text.  
> 
> v9 puts the list in vertical format, 5 columns.
> 
> But the column spacing in HTML is ugly, and I don't
> see a parameter to set to change it.  I suppose we could
> do more work on the stylesheets, but this seems excessive.

Come to think of it, this should be fixed by using CSS
with a

  table.simplelist

selector.  Or something along those lines.  But I don't
have a serious interest in proceeding further.  A inline
list seems good enough, even if it does not stand out
in a visual scan of the page.  There is a certain amount
of visual-standout due to all the hyperlinks next to each
other in the inline presentation.

Regards,

Karl <kop@karlpinc.com>
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