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Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/bibliography...
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Stephen |
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Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/bibliography... |
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Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:24:27 -0500 |
One more point, while the general recommendations still cite (I finally
figured out how to spell it) an assumption that the general user might still
only have a screen resolution of 800x600, it is a good assumption that a
user of a graphic oriented program like Lilypond is likely to have a minimum
screen resolution of 1024x768 nowadays. So a minimum width of 972 would be
acceptable.
Even when you accept general guidelines and recommendations, they still need
to be adjusted to fit the specific situation. When I see a fixed width web
site, I think it is controlling and condescending and while I think it looks
pretty, inwardly I am thinking I will have to scroll more that I would wish.
In this case Han-Wen rejects the general wisdom and with good reason. The
layout has already been tuned to look good in flexible width format. More
that just the width would need to be adjusted to tune it properly for fixed
width presentation and the problem that less information would be present on
each page and more scrolling would be necessary could not be overcome.
When I am having trouble understanding something in the documentation, I
find myself jumping between paragraphs rearranging the order of the
explanation until I understand it. That is harder to do if I have to scroll
between paragraphs.
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heikki Junes" <address@hidden>
To: "Stephen" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/bibliography...
Stephen wrote:
Even in the documentation, the blank line between paragraphs, which you
do not see in a news column, and the frequent examples prevent the
columns of text from getting too tall, making it easier not to mistake
which line we are on.
Although I like pages that flow into the entire browser window I have,
because it reduces the amount of scrolling needed to read each page.
Stephen
These are good points.
The main pages look better when they span over full screen. But I would
still like to restrict the width of the manual pages: If the width of the
rendered examples is fixed to 671px or less, it make it easier to follow
the text&examples if the width of the text is not much larger than the
width of the examples, so that the text is close to the example in hand.
Heikki