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Re: [Cs-dev] Current Manual Vote and Thoughts

Date2008-06-15 15:50
FromMichael Gogins
SubjectRe: [Cs-dev] Current Manual Vote and Thoughts
I think that this is now a distinct improvement on the original manual style, thank you.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Andres Cabrera 
>Sent: Jun 15, 2008 10:15 AM
>To: Developer discussions 
>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Current Manual Vote and Thoughts
>
>Thanks all for the input. For those who dislike the colors, I've put back
>the previous version of the css as csound-bw.css, to use it, just rename it
>to csound.css. I also added a new target to the makefile called html-bw that
>will use the bw css.
>
>I have also incorporated the following changes:
>-Gave font its previous size (back to previous size)
>-Removed indentations.
>-Changed brown to blue.
>
>I prefer having color as default as this in my opinion makes the manual more
>newbie friendly. However if the bw version is preferred as default, I'll
>switch it.
>
>Cheers,
>Andrés
>
>On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:40 AM, David Akbari  wrote:
>
>> The colors are OK, but the font is way too small. PS. I _am_ about 25 or
>> so.
>>
>>
>> -David
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Art Hunkins  wrote:
>> > 15% of the population is a significant chunk.
>> >
>> > Include all us senior citizens with challenged vision and the percentage
>> > goes much higher.
>> >
>> > I've a big quarrel with developers who seem to think that anyone who uses
>> a
>> > computer must be 25 or so. Do they want to lose 40% of their potential
>> > users?
>> >
>> > Art Hunkins (a sweet 71)
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "jpff" 
>> > To: "Developer discussions" 
>> > Cc: 
>> > Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 5:59 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Current Manual Vote and Thoughts
>> >
>> >
>> >> Sorry to be late to this discussion -- deep in marking and stuff and
>> >> about 500 e-mail behind -- but I just took a look at the coloured
>> >> manual.
>> >>
>> >> To my non-good eyesight the fonts are small, and the use of a ?blue
>> >> background to the summary of an opcode renders it unreadable.  Some of
>> >> the colours look sufficiently pale that I cannot read them on a white
>> >> background.
>> >>
>> >> eg: OENTRY Reference
>> >>
>> >> In index the OENTRY is unreadable.  On the page the first column of
>> >> figure 17 is easy to ignore -- did not see the characters initially.
>> >>
>> >> OTOH I am colour-blind, and that affects only about 15% of the male
>> >> population.
>> >>
>> >> ==John ffitch
>> >>
>>
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