Re: [DOCS] Doc fixes and improvements

From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Doc fixes and improvements
Date: 2010-09-10 20:10:03
Message-ID: AANLkTim5CEmZptmgPX_cA0NjYV2bNOU0CfyeFpPFvBM3@mail.gmail.com
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On 10 September 2010 21:03, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Thom Brown wrote:
>> > OK, here is what I see:
>> >
>> > ? ? ? ?http://momjian.us/tmp/pg_manual.png
>> >
>> > I have font size of 14, with fixed size of 12 in my Firefox preferences.
>> >
>> > If I turn off javascript is looks more consistent:
>> >
>> > ? ? ? ?http://momjian.us/tmp/pg_manual2.png
>>
>> The font size shown in your 2nd screenshot looks smaller than the
>> existing docs.  I did a comparison of Magnus' version and the live
>> version.  The same monospace example in both renders the font as
>> precisely a calculated 12.7667px.
>>
>> In fact it looks more like the proportional font is too small.  My
>> value for that is still at the default value of 16.  Does yours
>> differ?
>
> 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

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