Re: [DOCS] Doc fixes and improvements

Thom Brown wrote:
> >> > Here is what I think you want to see. ?This is my screen with
> >> > proportional and fixed set to 14, with javascript turned off:
> >> >
> >> > ? ? ? ?http://momjian.us/tmp/pg_manual3.png
> >> >
> >> > That looks right. ?This is Ubuntu with Firefox 3.6.9.
> >> >
> >> > And this is the display of my font defaults:
> >> >
> >> > ? ? ? ?http://momjian.us/tmp/fonts.png
> >> >
> >> > Does that help?
> >>
> >> Yes, according to these, the proportional font defaults to 16px:
> >> http://nst.sourceforge.net/nst/docs/tech/ch02s04.html
> >> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080211131203AA6CErK
> >
> > OK, so why are we not just setting the fixed-width font to be the same
> > size as the proportional? ?We are mixing the two types in the same
> > paragraph, so why not just set them the same? ?Using the javascript I
> > sent, you can probe for the preference settings.
>
> That javascript checked whether the values were the same, and if they
> weren't, it introduced a stylesheet which made an adjustment, which is
> pretty much what the current site does, except we don't bother
> checking the rendering engine, just the default font settings.
>
> It seems that I'm a lot further off than I thought I was. :/ Back to
> the drawing board.

I think the original adjustment was flawed because it just set a
percentage change. I think we can just assign them to match, rather
than trying to figure out what percentage to use. Where is the
javascript file?

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