Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-21 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Matthew Butterick wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2017, at 3:32 AM, Robby Findler > wrote: > > That may have been done that way to make the docs.racket-lang.org page look > better (to draw your eye to the right manual). > > > I figured. > > But hard-coding formatting inside

Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-21 Thread Greg Hendershott
> restricted to the TOC, but instead manifests globally. And, because it's > implemented with "font-weight: bold" and not a CSS class, it's difficult to > manipulate from outside (unless you employ the Hendershott Method) I object to using that name for such a weak hack. The full Hendershott Meth

Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-21 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Nov 21, 2017, at 3:32 AM, Robby Findler > wrote: > > That may have been done that way to make the docs.racket-lang.org > page look better (to draw your eye to the > right manual). I figured. But hard-coding formatting inside `title` is a blunt instrument

Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-21 Thread Robby Findler
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:25 PM Matthew Butterick wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2017, at 6:10 PM, Greg Hendershott > wrote: > > > > The following example hack _seems_ to clear the "impervious" hurdle? > > a.Sq span { font-weight: normal !important} > > I'm not a CSS guru. This barely clears the "it wo

Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-20 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Nov 20, 2017, at 6:10 PM, Greg Hendershott > wrote: >>> >> >> The following example hack _seems_ to clear the "impervious" hurdle? >> >> a.Sq span { font-weight: normal !important} >> >> I'm not a CSS guru. This barely clears the "it works" hurdle. >> That is, I don't know if the "Sq"

Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-20 Thread Greg Hendershott
p.s. I meant to add: I love your original redesign and this makes it even better. On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Greg Hendershott wrote: >>> It looks very nice, but as a side effect slightly exacerbates a >>> long-standing ergonomic issue with cross-links in the side-notes: > > Like Daniel ment

Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-20 Thread Greg Hendershott
>> It looks very nice, but as a side effect slightly exacerbates a >> long-standing ergonomic issue with cross-links in the side-notes: Like Daniel mentioned, I click the bold one by mistake. A lot. > I agree, but in that case the bold styling is attached to "The Racket > Reference" within the HT

Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-20 Thread Matthew Butterick
On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 7:59:40 AM UTC-8, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: > > IPad Pro small landscape chrome. > Thanks, the iOS display problem is now fixed. On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 11:10:41 AM UTC-8, Daniel Prager wrote: > > Hi Matthew > > It looks very nice, but as a side effect s

Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-20 Thread Daniel Prager
Hi Matthew It looks very nice, but as a side effect slightly exacerbates a long-standing ergonomic issue with cross-links in the side-notes: docs.racket-lang.org: revision: In almost every case the user will want to click on the unbolded specific link *(Pattern Matching*), but the bolding entic

Re: [racket-users] minor proposed update to docs typography

2017-11-20 Thread Jay McCarthy
It all looks beautimous to me! On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Matthew Butterick wrote: > http://mbutterick.github.io/racket-doc-redo/doc/ > > This link demos some small typographic updates to the docs: > > + new title font (that matches the one used on other Racket websites) > + new monospaced