On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 07:10:27PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
> > Also, I see:
> >
> >$LastChangedBy:barjo $
> >$Date:2015-08-04 00:37:38 +0100 $
> >
> >So I assume this does NOT include your changes from the past couple
> >of days ?
>
> Well it sorta does include it. As I said, above you have to copy
> lfs.css.new to lfs.css to use it. It is definitely not the default.
>
I saw that Last ChangedBy and assumed that was who had committed it,
and when. For "not the default", yes, I understand that part.
> >For anybody who is minded to fix this [ insert phrase of choice ] to
> >work on mobile devices, or perhaps graphical browsers which do not
> >understand css3, I found three links which might be helpful. Then
> >again, they might not - as I said earlier, I regard css as akin to
> >sourcery.
>
> LOL. I used to teach it. It is really not hard. If you want me to explain
> it, I can do that. Basically it does not change content. It only changes
> the look by controlling fonts and boxes and other spacing. Really, the
> concept is the same as TeX in many ways.
>
Oh no, not that hard, please! No, no, no! 8)
> The other thing is that it is really easy to change. Just leave the css
> file in the editor and save changes to disk and then refresh the browser
> page.
>
Well, I've managed to get my phone to access my local copies of the
books, so maybe I'll take a look. But I've already spent time which
I really did not have available, so that might be deferred sine die.
I just wish that the translators had spoken to the list about what
they hoped to achieve, and how they had tested it.
> Like many computer things, it looks hard, but ends up being easy when you
> understand some relatively simple principles.
>
> -- Bruce
>
There are very few computer things that I now regard as "easy".
Perhaps only IEFBR14 and /bin/{false,true}. Given time, any idiot
can break almost anything ;-)
ĸen
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