From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P1POS-0001JU-J5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:06:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CA49E0A01; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C911E0A01 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E26F1B4116 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:05:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.279 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.279 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.320, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wHiqcblRu6yj for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:05:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E2B1B4030 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:05:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1PNh-00066R-JB for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:05:29 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:05:29 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:05:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4CA4D967.4000900@gmail.com> <4CA4E19D.7000303@gmail.com> <4CA4EA23.70902@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: f5b24ca7-c643-461a-8c34-c967c88ce0a1 X-Archives-Hash: d391b65a6c58aa5883addbaa2f10744a On 2010-09-30, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> << SNIP >> >> Whatever's generating the HTML/CSS for the Gentoo manual web pages >> does know the difference, and should be able to do The Right >> Thing(tm). The manual HTML is definitely machine-generated, but I >> can't tell you by what at this point, so I can't offer a specific >> fix... >> >> > > Maybe what needs to happen is this. Find the person that is "in the > know" on the Gentoo docs, give them a OLD 12" monitor to help do the > pages with. and some OLD eyes with which to look at the monitor -- that way they set their browser sup with larger fonts for the low-contrast blue-on-blue blocks. :) What really needs to happen is for me to file a bug report against the documentation (assuming this hasn't already been filed as a bug and been resolved as "won't fix"). I'll put that on my list of things to do... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! YOU PICKED KARL at MALDEN'S NOSE!! gmail.com