"Eric Niebler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Abrahams wrote: >> "Eric Niebler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>>You can't really use the width of most monitors effectively anyway >>>>unless you display multiple columns on a page. Long lines are hard to >>>>read. >>> >>> >>> This is only proving my point. With Rene's layout, lines of text >>> get even longer. The table-like layout is a more effective use of >>> horizontal *and* vertical space. >>> >>> Unless there there is a general consensus, I don't intend to spend >>> any more time hacking the XSLT for this. >> Okay, so maybe we should structure all our documents that way? > > <snip amusing example> > > I posted a mock-up, people expressed support, I implemented it in XSLT. > I'll change it when I feel there's consensus that it should be changed.
<snip> > Awaiting comments from others. I get the message that you've heard enough from me and that nothing I say will carry weight until someone else speaks up. Too bad, though, because I noticed something else: at least in Firefox, there's a 2-pixel vertical misalignment between "Parameters" and the first parameter name. That's just odd; it looks like the parameter names are *trying*, but not quite succeeding, to be organized below their heading the way I'd like to see them (when you make the fonts small enough, they actually do succed completely ;->). > there is nothing inconsistent or non-traditional about using a table > to lay out definition lists. Our FOP/PDF generators do just that. I'm not sure that appealing to what _we_ have done is a good way to demonstrate that it's traditional... or even consistent with anything that matters. Our PDF generation format has not really been extensively exercised or scrutinized, AFAICT. I hope with the new release of FOP (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.91/) we'll be able to actually generate really nice PDFs. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
