Re: website margins

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2010-01-09, Graham Percival wrote:
> Patrick, IIRC you recently changed the CSS to have bigger margins.
> This wastes a lot (relatively speaking) of horizontal space on
> small screens+windows.  Could you keep the smaller margins (more
> text space) for small screens?  I don't mind if you do something
> fancy and increase the margins for large windows.

I just reverted the commit in which I decreased the max-width, thus
increasing the max-width again.

> My current approximate goal is to get all of the introduction +
> regular use + infrequent manuals visible in a typical
> (non-specially-tweaked) firefox window that's 1024x768.  Even
> that's a bit larger than I'd like to target, but let's meet this
> first goal before trying to get it even smaller.

That's a good idea.  I haven't looked at the changes yet, but my
reverted commit should help with this.

> I've been rewording manual descriptions (saving 2-3 words on
> average) to reduce their size, but I'd like to see how far I still
> need to go, and 40 more pixels of text width would help quite a
> bit.
> 
> "make website" should now work in a normal builddir after doing
> "make doc", so you can test exactly what'll be on lilypond.org.

Okay, thanks.

-Patrick