Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

[Patrick McCarty]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 01:14:52AM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> >
> > Okay, I know what the problem is, but the fix is not simple.  Our
> > implementation uses a *persistent* and an *alternate* stylesheet, but
> > since we want the alternate stylesheet to override the default
> > stylesheet, many of the default styles should be in a *preferred*
> > stylesheet.  An explanation of the three different types is here:
> 
> Ah, I see.
> So, the solution is simply to give the lilypond.css a title and everything 
> should be fine, right? 
> That's actually how I thought an alternative css would work (I thought it 
> would completely replace the standard stylesheet, which apparently it does 
> not).

Well, I tried that, but it didn't work.  I've read in a couple of
articles that browsers *need* a persistent stylesheet (one without a
title), or else the alternate and preferred stylesheets will not work
correctly.  :-(

> > In other words, we need three different stylesheets, modularizing
> > lilypond.css into two stylesheets and removing duplicate rules from
> > the alternate stylesheet.  
> 
> I don't think that's worth the effort, unless we plan to add many more 
> stylesheets. 

I agree.  Now that I think about it, this would require too much
effort.  We could implement this in the future if we need to.

Thanks,
Patrick