Thanks Andrus, you'd be the guy to know. I see from the css that the
fonts used are verdana and arial, both fonts that should be avoided,
verdana for style and arial for the moral reason that it's a cheap
rip off of helvetica so MS didn't have to pay licence fees.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html
http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html
http://screenfont.ca/fonts/today/interim/Arial/
I'm beginning to think that what is needed (in general) is a local
version of css, so that I have control over how styles display in my
browser, but that's for another day.
Ian
On 03/07/2007, at 5:20 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:34 AM, Ian Joyner wrote:
I appreciate the effort to provide a better level of documentation
at the objectstyle confluence site. However, I'd have to say, I
like the look of the wikibook a lot better (even though it wastes
space on the LHS). Is it possible to give a confluence site a
better look, or is this locked into confluence?
Yes.
One way is to use auto-export plugin - you can achieve advanced
custom formatting (and also improve rendering performance). Cayenne
site for instance is 100% Confluence-based: http://
cayenne.apache.org/ The catch - auto-export plugin hasn't been
upgraded yet to Confluence 2.5 API. But I am sure it will be at
some point (and I may even try to reach the developers on that).
There's also a way to tweak live Confluence CSS. Unfortunately this
has to be done on the server directly (see below)
One problem is the font. I think it is being killed by anti-
aliasing making some characters look semi-bold (eg a, y, h) and
thus ruining the reading experience. If I make the font size
bigger (command-+), it does not look so bad, or smaller seems to
get rid of the anti-aliasing. Does anyone know what font this is
(can't see it in the "view source")? (Looks like some wacky
Microsoft font.) Looks alright printed, although I'd rather a
serif font for printed material.
Agreed about the fonts. Check the CSS attached to the page - the
fonts are defined there. If somebody wants to design a better one,
you can get the HTML sources from the site, tweak the CSS, and post
the static mockup somewhere. If it looks good, I can load it to the
server. Just do not reformat the CSS file too much, so that I could
build a patch against current CSS, and use it for the future upgrades.
Andrus
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