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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 13:52:40 -0400
From: Joshua Slive <joshua@slive.ca>
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Subject: Re: New draft of manual style
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Astrid Ke=DFler wrote:
>>http://cvs.apache.org/~slive/manual/
>>Contains a new draft of the proposed new manual style.  This one is
>>fully generated using xslt, so all the xml files should be converted.
>=20
> Fine, so we have now a first draft to work with the whole documentation=
=2E
> It is actually a draft, isn't it?=20

Certainly.

> It's a bit different from Andr=E9's
> suggestion and sometimes ... unbalanced.=20

Can you be more specific.  I'm not sure what you mean.

> I miss the additional styles,

You mean the alternate style-sheets?  Those can certainly be put back,=20
but I'm not sure I understand the point of them.  Ordinary users will=20
never find them, I'm sure.

> the harmonized link colors

All the link colors look the same to me, except for directives and=20
modules which are deliberately different.  I changed everything to turn=20
red on hover, and I removed the underlining on modules and directives,=20
because I think it makes paragraphs with many references difficult to rea=
d.

> , and the german documents seem to need some
> code correction (maybe only an updated xsl, this should be no problem).=


I haven't looked at the translations, but they should be relatively easy =

to fix.

> I would suggest to exclude Netscape 4 completely from css. This will
> simplify the css a lot.

That's always been my opinion, but others disagree.

Joshua.


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