Re: Loss of boldface on syntax synopsis, v10 & devel

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Loss of boldface on syntax synopsis, v10 & devel
Date: 2018-05-14 20:40:33
Message-ID: a3e877fd-1041-811f-e8ce-236b00c5bcd3@2ndquadrant.com
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On 5/9/18 22:41, David G. Johnston wrote:
> I don't recall this being mentioned before; I just noticed that in v9.6
> and earlier docs the placeholders for identifiers/expressions/etc are
> boldfaced and italic.  In v10 and devel they are just italic.
>
> The boldface does seem to help improve readability for me.

They are meant to be italic only. I believe making replaceable text
italic is a wide-spread convention.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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