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Re: [Manual] Unreadable navigation links and oversize titles


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: [Manual] Unreadable navigation links and oversize titles
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:34:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

Thérèse Godefroy <godef.th@free.fr> skribis:

>> Understood.  The problem I saw before this change is that the navigation
>> links were too prominent and cluttering the page.  Reducing the font
>> size seemed like one way to address that.
>>
> Yes, but you can't reduce font size, use a thinner font and use a
> lighter color, all at the same time. :-)

Heh, fair enough.  :-)

>> Ideally, they’d be displayed (say) in the margin on wide-enough
>> displays, and they’d be hidden altogether on small displays
>> (smartphones).
>> 
>> WDYT?
>>
> Of course it would be better. But the most important word here is
> "ideally". Judging from the time it takes to get any style change
> accepted on gnu.org, I'm not sure anyone will want to get into this
> business.

It’s sad because it’s an incentive for projects that can afford it to do
their own thing independently, and then we lose consistency across GNU
manuals.

>>> 2. Huge headings.
>>> It's not only a matter of taste. They decrease usability on smartphones.
>> 
>> OK, let’s adjust that; please go ahead or send a patch.  On my laptop it
>> looks fine and makes sections more distinguishable IMO.
>> 
> I forwarded my original message to you. It has the patch.

> Index: manual.css
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /web/gnulib/gnulib/manual.css,v
> retrieving revision 1.8
> diff -U 2 -r1.8 manual.css
> --- manual.css        13 Nov 2020 21:28:02 -0000      1.8
> +++ manual.css        13 Dec 2020 07:23:09 -0000
> @@ -38,6 +38,5 @@
>  .header {
>      line-height: 2em;
> -    font-size: 80%;
> -    font-weight: lighter;
> +    font-size: 87.5%;
>      color: #433;
>  }
> @@ -47,9 +46,9 @@
>  .settitle, .top, .chapter {
>      font-family: Fira Sans, sans;
> -    font-size: 300%;
> +    font-size: 250%;
>  }
>  .section, .subsection, .subsubsection { 
>      font-family: Fira Sans, sans;
> -    font-size: 200%; 
> +    font-size: 150%; 
>  }

Sounds good to me (can you commit it yourself? if not I’ll do it).

BTW, with Fira Sans, headings don’t look that bad (to me); we could have
a copy of the font at gnu.org and import it.

> @@ -73,7 +72,4 @@
>  
>  body {
> -    /* The shadow around the body is distracting.  */
> -    box-shadow: 0 0 0 0;

No strong opinion, but that’s unrelated (that’s been there for a while.)

Thanks!

Ludo’.



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