On 05/11/14 20:43, Todd Lyons wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Phillip Carroll
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It would be appreciated if whomever is responsible for the formatting of the
>> online doc would fix the CSS used for Chapter 58. In any modern browser, the
>> formatting is horrible.
>>
>> The specific page:  http://tinyurl.com/o4aglkr
>>
>> Specifically, the problem appears to affect the formatting of <dl> tags
>> subordinate to <dd>.  I have no doubt I could hunt down the problem and fix
>> it, once I deduced the intended result. However, I just don't have the time.
>>
>> ...Oh hell, actually, in two minutes, I see in chapter.css:
>>
>>> dl dd dl {
>>>     margin-left: -180px;
>>> }
>>
>>
>> Text positioned at negative 180 pixels to the left is somewhat difficult to
>> read in my browser. I assume something else is actually intended?
> 
> My first guess was that the - was extra, but removing it did something
> horrible to the output.  My second guess was that the 0 was extra, and
> -18 was intended.  In my testing "-18px" gives what appears to be
> reasonable alignment.  Can anybody else refute that?  It renders fine
> in Firefox once you change that to -18px.

I have this nasty feeling I've seen a comment somewhere about this sort
of thing before; the conclusion was that it was the best of a bad
job...   The docs workflow is a bit obscure.
-- 
Cheers,
  Jeremy


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