Re: Documentation access problems.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> > > Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > >
> > > > It's a variable function of my vision, lighting, but I usually use 24 point
> > > > on VDUs, In this terminal (because Lucida Console doesn't have thin strokes,
> > > > the n's are about 5 mm high, but I'd like them bigger if possible. I'm
> > > > not the limiting case, a former colleague liked her text about 2cm tall.
> > >
> > > Would fixed width font help you?
> >
> > That's almost the right question :-) but it's not the width of the
> > characters which would help, it is the width of the narrowest strokes
> > in the characters. I don't have a clue what typographers would call
> > that.
>
> Maybe a completely different typeface like Gentium may be helpful?

Google gave me:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium
and there are samples which are more readable in PDF.

The samples are on A5 rather than A4. I wonder if the PostgreSQL docs
were output to A$ whether that might help me, because I'd be able to
double the size before lines flowed off the screen? Thanks for this
info about Gentium -- I rather like it.
>
> > I suppose the question to ask now is: what is the current production
> > system for the PDFs? If that is known then we can see what variables
> > can be adjusted within reason. I'd like to improve it for me and others
> > in my position without making it typographically hideous for fully sighted
> > people :-).
>
> We use openjade.

Ah, so the HTML is the source, the DSSSL is used (about which I know
nothing) to get (to something to get to) the PDF. It would take me
a while to reach the stage where I could contribute anything useful
in this area, alas.
>

Thank you,
Hugh