Re: A Closer Look at GNU AutoTools

[Nick Bowler]

On 2014-09-04 20:02 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 16:40:40 -0600
> "John Calcote" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: address@hidden
> > > [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
> > > Of Shawn H Corey
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 4:05 PM
> > >
> > > You mean those ASCII diagrams that should be inside <pre></pre>
> > > tags? And you don't think that's crappy?
> > 
> > Are they in some way unreadable? The point is to convey information.
> > If they accomplish that task, how could they be better? If the
> > definition of crappy is "they're not polished eye candy", well then I
> > guess they're crappy, but for my own uses they suffice.
> 
> They're unreadable in proportionally=space fonts. The web isn't stuck
> with just monospaced ones.

My browser uses a monospace font for the diagrams, and they look OK to
me.  Is there a problem with the HTML code?  You may have discovered a
bug in Texinfo.

The font is correct in the PDF version of the manual.

Thanks,
-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)