Re: html manual +css

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Dec 24, 2019, at 2:20, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Sample:
>> https://brandelune.github.io/code/Visiting-Functions.html
> 
> Thanks, this looks pretty good on my desktop (haven't tried it
> elsewhere yet).  One thing I'd find useful is to keep the next/up first
> line "floating at the top", so they're always available without having
> to scroll to the top or to the bottom.
> [ Tho I guess when reading on a small screen I might prefer it the way
> it is now.  ]

Ok, so I have something that works both ways:

1) when the display is wide enough to have the full horizontal menu, the menu 
is displayed horizontally and follows the scrolling.

2) when the display is not wide enough to have the full horizontal menu, the 
menu is displayed on the right side of the screen, as a list of links, with 
"icons" before the link names to hint at their use, and the menu sticks to its 
original position.

All that is implemented without modifying the HTML output by texinfo. I'm just 
using the existing HTML tags and attributes to "anchor" CSS variations on them.

Would you mind checking if that works as you intended ?

Jean-Christophe

> 
> 
>        Stefan
> 
> 
>> The css I wrote:
>> https://github.com/brandelune/brandelune.github.io/blob/gh-pages/code/emacs.css
>> 
>> It is something I had done a while ago so I just spent a few hours today
>> cleaning it up but I'm really not sure how I came up with the various values
>> anymore :)
>> 
>> Anyway, if it looks useful I'd like to think of ways to have it more widely 
>> used.
>> 
>> Also, there are plenty of things that would be nice to have but in a way
>> we're hitting the limits of the texinfo output (and my css skills too, of
>> course).
>> 
>> For ex:
>> 
>> @deffn Command find-file filename &optional wildcards
>> 
>> becomes
>> 
>> <dt id="index-find_002dfile">Command: <strong>find-file</strong>
>> <em>filename &amp;optional wildcards</em></dt>
>> 
>> it would be nice to have the arguments tagged individually and the &optional
>> or &rest keywords tagged in a different way. Also to have the various
>> templates identified for what they are. Maybe something like:
>> 
>> <dt id="index-find_002dfile" class="command">Command: <strong
>> class="command-name">find-file</strong> <em class="argument">filename</em>
>> <span class="keyword">&amp;optional</span> <em
>> class="optional">wildcards</em></dt>
>> 
>> Also, examples should have similar tagging:
>> 
>> @smallexample
>> (switch-to-buffer (find-file-noselect filename nil nil wildcards))
>> @end smallexample
>> 
>> could be something like 
>> 
>> @smallexample
>> (@commandname switch-to-buffer (@commandname find-file-noselect @arguments
>> filename nil nil wildcards))
>> @end smallexample
>> 
>> so that we can have ways to target their contents with css.
>> 
>> Jean-Christophe 
>> 
>>> On Jun 7, 2017, at 23:27, Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Jun 7, 2017 8:47、Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>のメール:
>>>> 
>>>>>> What I did to get the same CSS as the site is curl the css files. There 
>>>>>> are 3 of those:
>>>>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual.css
>>>>>> https://www.gnu.org/style.css
>>>>>> https://www.gnu.org/reset.css
>>>>> 
>>>>> Each of these files has a licensing problem.  I asked FSF staff to fix
>>>>> the last two, and mailed to emacs-devel about the first.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In the meantime, please don't copy any of that code, with or without 
>>>>> changes,
>>>>> to any other file that will be distributed to the public.
>>>> 
>>>> CSS is not high level wizardry, maybe it would be simpler to create a new
>>>> set of rules for the offline manual ?
>>> 
>>> I've created a single css file which renders in a way that's similar to
>>> the web version of the HTML pages (it is not identical though).
>>> 
>>> I'd like to know what kind of licence should such a CSS file come with.
>>> 
>>> Jean-Christophe
>> 
>> Jean-Christophe Helary
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune