discuss: Thread: linuxdoc generated html nice-ities

Hi,
I've been using linuxdoc to make simple webpages for a while.
I noticed some of the LDP unofficial mirrors/re-issuers
have nicer fonts, layout and colours. Can anyone point me to some info about embellishing my linuxdoc html pages.
Steven Atkinson


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Le 12/12/2009 08:41, Steven a écrit :
> Hi,
> I've been using linuxdoc to make simple webpages for a while.
> I noticed some of the LDP unofficial mirrors/re-issuers
> have nicer fonts, layout and colours. Can anyone point me to some info about embellishing my linuxdoc html pages.
> Steven Atkinson

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html

can you give us a link to the page pleasing you, so we can see who
made the pretty printing?

jdd

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:41:36PM -0800, Steven wrote:
> Hi, I've been using linuxdoc to make simple webpages for a while.  I
> noticed some of the LDP unofficial mirrors/re-issuers have nicer
> fonts, layout and colours. Can anyone point me to some info about
> embellishing my linuxdoc html pages.

I also use linuxdoc for making webpages and once noticed this.  But I
then realized that the conversion to html results in an html that
neither specifies font nor font size.  This lets your browser decide
how to display it and most browsers have a setup menu where the user
can choose a default font and size.  If a good choice is made (or the
browser originally came with a good choice) then the display looks
pretty good.  But in many cases it doesn't look good because the user
has not bothered to set it up.
	
Could the nicer fonts you refer to be due to cascading style sheets
that are called by a link added to the html doc?

			David Lawyer

> > Hi, I've been using linuxdoc to make simple webpages
> > for a while. I noticed some of the LDP unofficial
> > mirrors/re-issuers have nicer fonts, layout and colours.
> > Can anyone point me to some info about
> > embellishing my linuxdoc html pages.

> I also use linuxdoc for making webpages and once noticed
> this.  But I then realized that the conversion to html
> results in an html that neither specifies font nor font size.  

I think you're right about the font size... The site i remember
had smallish AA fonts all round, as well as nice colour themes.
I went looking for an example, but can't find one now ^%#

> Could the nicer fonts you refer to be due to cascading
> style sheets that are called by a link added to the html doc?

I've seen the CSS sites you're talking about, but i don't think these
are the ones i remember / was talking about.

Steven


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