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

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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On Sunday 14 September 2008 21:50:36 Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer
>
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> I also compressed the spacing of the footer and changed the link's
> >> appearance, as Reinhold suggested.
> >
> > Yes, that looks much better. I'm still wondering if we need the line
> > "This document was generated by Patrick McCarty on September 13,
> > 2008 using texi2html 1.79."
> > at all... Also, the language selection should probably go into the
> > footer bar, but that requires a change in our postprocess_html.py
> > buildscript...
>
> I'm not bothered with the "generated by" line, but it is generated for
> every page in the whole documentation, so it's probably unnecessary.
>
> I agree that the language selection should be included in the footer,
> but I'm not sure how the buildscript will have to be modified.

I now added Patrick's design as an alternative stylesheet in git and 
triggered a rebuild of the docs on kainhofer.com. This way we can 
evaluate at the same time all the designs we get and then decide which 
we should use (or which aspects of which design should be merged for the 
final design). So, after the rebuild is complete (should be every moment 
now), all the texi2html-generated docs (but not the Doc index page!) 
will let you choose the design:
http://www.kainhofer.com/~lilypond/

Most proper web browsers let you select the alternate stylesheet in a 
menu entry (in Konqueror it's the menu entry "View->Use stylesheet", in 
opera it's "View->Style" and in Firefox it's "View->Page style").
If we get more designs, we can easily add them as alternate style sheets 
without much hassle (just add the .css file to git and add it to the 
ALT_CSS_REF list in out texi2html .init file).

Currently, the footer looks bad with Patrick's design on the server, 
because I have not changed the footer to the HTML structure suggested by 
Patrick.
Is everyone okay to change the footer lines to the following?

This page is for LilyPond-2.11.59 (development-branch). 
Your suggestions for the documentation are welcome, please report errors 
to our bug list. 

For an example see:
http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/texi2html/start.html

I did, however, remove the  "generated by name using texi2html ..." line 
before the footer.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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