Re: reorg'd release notes, one request for xsl stylesheet guru-ness

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 8/29/05, Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This looks very good! A few suggestions to hopefully improve it:
> 
>  * We should present the admin section before the developer section.

I tend to disagree.

>    I think more people are interested in the changes mentioned there;
>    and there's a small danger that readers drop out during the GTK+
>    technese.

I intend to reduce the GTK technese.

>  * Likewise, I'd move the menu editor at the top of the admin section.

Reasonable. Like I said, I'd like to reorg all three tonight.

>  * Maybe "GNOME 2.12 is released on time." instead of
>    "GNOME 2.12 is not an exception"?
> 
>  * Maybe link to /softwaremap instead of gnomefiles directly? I guess
>    some people could be worried about the missing disclaimer (license
>    not clearly indicated).

Just a placeholder. I'd like it to go to gnome.org/applications as
I've been discussing with Andreas.

Luis

> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:28:03 -0400
> Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> 
> > I've put a cut at some reorged release notes here:
> >
> > http://tieguy.org/misc/212releasenotes/index.html
> >
> > The main rewriting was on the first page, but I reorged the other
> > pages. I'll try to make another pass at these tomorrow, but in the
> > meantime please feel free to read over/critique. If there is consensus
> > that this is better, I'll check them in tomorrow night.
> >
> > One stylistic thing I'd really like to get changed- every image in
> > these has a <b>Figure 1.
> > picture-name-which-is-often-the-same-as-the-section-name </b> above
> > the picture. Can someone with xsl guruness make these blocks more like
> > in davyd's release notes:
> >
> > http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-12/
> >
> > i.e., no uber-formal-totally-uninformative 'Figure X', and italicized
> > below the image, instead of bolded above the image?
> >
> > I am using the xsl bits in:
> > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnomeweb-wml/docbook_html_style/
> >
> > to generate the stuff, so that is what the changes would have to be
> > to.
> >
> > Thanks-
> > Luis
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