Re: Doc: HTML table cells are misleadingly associated: should be top-aligned

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mar 15 mar 2016 alle 4:12, Mark D. Blackwell 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> >  I prefer the center-align.
> >  I think that, as long as each definition begins with a capital (it 
> > should be
> >  "A Scheme type predicate...") and there's some padding between each
> >  definition, it should be readable.
> >
> >  See attached example. What do you think?
>
> I'm puzzled by your attached example. It doesn't seem to be an example
> of center-alignment with padding beginning with a capital. Instead,
> the word "Two" lines up vertically with the start of the second set of
> "Lorem ipsum" text. This alignment is exactly what I originally meant
> would be better. :)

You are probably seeing that example at full width.. Try to resize the 
browser window to half screen and you'll see that in my first example, 
as in the attached screenshot, the "Two" is not lined up vertically to 
the second set of lorem ipsum; it is centered.

Find attached a second example where there's a real top alignment, as 
defined by this CSS rule:

table td {
 vertical-align: top;
}

> As to your words about your preference, I agree that adding some
> padding between each definition would mostly solve the readability
> problem. Yet (still) I feel it's less aesthetically pleasing than
> top-alignment. And from readers, it calls for more visual "seek"
> effort. BTW, on that page of the PDF version of the manual, I observe
> the "cells" already are top-aligned (or the equivalent).

This is true. There's also more padding than in HTML.
I agree that it's more readable.

> Lastly I
> should mention that in general such padding would (at least slightly)
> increase the size of an HTML manual, thus making any given browser
> window hold slightly less information.

If a small padding improves the readability, this is good and I don't 
mind about the HTML manuals being slightly longer. Who cares for this?

Anyway, I can try and make a patch as soon as I have some time (very 
few spare time recently).

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