Re: 7.4 official docs : Fonts?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
Cc: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.4 official docs : Fonts?
Date: 2003-11-20 03:56:26
Message-ID: 200311200356.hAK3uQ213574@candle.pha.pa.us
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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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