Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/8] docbook: improve css style

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras venit, vidit, dixit 24.03.2009 01:21:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Michael J Gruber
>> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>>> Felipe Contreras venit, vidit, dixit 23.03.2009 11:31:
>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:05:15PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  tt.literal, code.literal {
>>>>>>    color: navy;
>>>>>> +  font-size: 1em;
>>>>>> +}
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't 1em already the default size? Or are you trying to override some
>>>>> other size specification elsewhere? It's hard to tell what the goal is
>>>>> because your commit message merely says "improve".
>>>>
>>>> That's correct.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that when the user has a different size for the
>>>> sans-serif and monospace fonts it looks horrible when they are on the
>>>> same paragraph. I thought 1em did the trick, but you are right, it
>>>> doesn't.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like the only way to fix this is to set absolute sizes.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Also, it seems that everything which is not black is blue, except for
>>> terms, which are green and slanted. I don't think that looks nice
>>> together. How about slanted blue?
>>
>> What's wrong with having 2 colors?
>
> I don't mind having 2, they just don't look good together over here, on
> my screen and to my eyes...
>
> Right now we have "plain old asciidoc look" which doesn't look that old
> after all. You pointed out a deficiency, and I'm all for fixing it. I
> just think that introducing new colors is something that may require a
> ground up rethinking of the theme being used: make it informative but
> unobtrusive. Also, I'm against over-emphasizing: use slanted or a
> specific color, but not both. Unless one color means emphasizing and
> slanted means file, for example.

Take a look at:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~felipec/git/user-manual.html#bisect-merges

Do you think slanting Z (and the other characters) is enough to emphasize it?

-- 
Felipe Contreras