Re: CSS for Help Docs

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Alex Larsson wrote:

> Calum Benson wrote:
>
> > In other words, I guess, it sounds like we need an option in Yelp that
> > lets the user choose which stylesheet to use to display GNOME help
> > docs-- default, high contrast, low contrast, big print etc.  
>
> Yeah. Sounds good.
>
> I'm unsure of the current CSS state in GtkHTML2, but barring any
> unimplemented stuff this should be possible. The problem is that the code
> is somewhat distributed. The html generation code for man pages and info
> pages are in libgnome, and needs to be updated to use CSS. I have no
> idea how  docbook stuff is done with respect to stylesheets, but i doubt
> it's hard to fix. And then we may need some code in yelp to select between
> alternate stylesheets in the html pages.


Sounds cool, it would be great if we could get something like this into
Yelp before the UI freeze  :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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