Re: Gnome user's guide line length?

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 15:12, Ben
FrantzDale wrote:
> > Looking at 
> > http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/gnome2.0-users-guide.pdf
> > and
> > http://docs-pdf.sun.com/817-1027/817-1027.pdf (found at
> > http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1027?q=GNOME&s=t)
> > the content of the two are essentially the same, but the line length of
> > the latter is much shorter (and hence more readable) than the official
> > GNOME version.
> > 
> > According to The Elements of Typographic Style (page 27), "more than
> > 75 or 80 characters is likely to be too long for continuous reading."
> > 
> > I am wondering what the rationale are behind the current style sheet and
> > what could be done to make the GNOME version more readable.
> > 
> > (Please CC me, I'm not on this list.)
> > 
> 
> Indeed, the Sun version does look nicer and read more easily. Any
> volunteers with the time and/or pdf generation expertise to work on
> this?
> 

I think the potential gotchas in this are:
     * the docs.sun.com versionismade with different tools
     * the docs.sun.comversion is with different, sun-specific templates

I suspect both may be true, so it may well be amore generic tools & stylesheets
problem

> Cheers,
> John
> -- 
> John Fleck
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> 


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