10.05.2020 14:19, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
I have published an PDF and HTML version of the Firebird 2.5 Language
Reference built from asciidoc. I have used some elements of style from
the old documentation, but a lot of it is based on the standard asciidoc
styles.
Could you look at the overall style of things to see if there are things
you really don't like.
https://www.lawinegevaar.nl/fbdocs/html/en/experiment/fblangref25.html
Basically close to excellence, in my opinion ;-) Font size is OK to me,
styles are good. Some comments:
1) 3.1. Integer Data Types, 3.2. Floating-Point Data Types, 3.3.
Fixed-Point Data Types -- why titles use a monospace font? This is OK
for "3.2.1. FLOAT", for example, but not for the regular text. "3.1.4.
Hexadecimal Format for Integer Numbers" is OK though. I see that this is
actually a problem with the source (<database> tag is wrongly used
there), but the old rendering seems not paying attention to that.
2) The code examples inside <blockquote><programlisting> are not only
italic but also use a bigger font than inside just <programlisting>.
Non-code <blockquote>s are also bigger than the text around them. Should
the <blockquote> really change the underlying font size? This doesn't
disturb much in HTML, but it's more annoying in PDF. I think a box with
yellow background is enough to separate quotes from the other text,
bigger font is an overkill here.
3) Looking at <link linkend="fblangref25-sidebar01">Switching the
Terminator in <emphasis>isql</emphasis></link> on page 159 inside the
DDL chapter, I see that PDF is rendered with two links "Switching the
Terminator in" and "isql". Looks weird.
4) I don't like how titles of <note> / <important> blocks are rendered,
they're just italic of the default size. I'd prefer a bigger font (and
maybe a different colour) as it was in the old version.
5) Table columns need to be properly sized. 50/50 doesn't look good,
especially for argument-description type of tables. Right-size alignment
in some columns also looks weird.
Dmitry
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