[PATCH] Improve rendering of DocBook documentation

[Gary Greene]

On 12/22/09 11:31 PM, "Michael Pyne" <mpyne at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I blogged the other day about improvements (IMHO) to the appearance of our
> DocBook documentation and I wanted to go ahead and post a patch of what I have
> for review (attached).
> 
> It's cross-posted to -docbook and -doc-english but I'd prefer to keep the
> central thread on kde-core-devel (it's the only ML I'm subscribed to so please
> CC me otherwise ;)
> 
> ANYWAYS, there's essentially only 2 large effects:
> 1. An additional CSS file is used to style the documentation (I don't want to
> risk tweaking something in an existing CSS file we use and break rendering on
> something else). I'm tried to make some of the various callouts (note, tip,
> warning, etc.) more obvious while not eye-grating. Likewise I've tried to make
> the informal examples, screen output, etc. less irritating. (There's even
> rounded corners now, such as on GUI labels, thanks Fredrik!)
> 
> 2. Also, the header/footer has been changed to be more like our current Web
> page designs (and hence, more like the output from our various KIO
> documentation filters). It's not a straight port of the KIO stuff as I took
> the opportunity to make the header actually fluid-width but I may backport it
> to the kioslaves for 4.5, who knows.
> 
> I've also added a couple of parameters useful for changing the email address
> and team name in the footer (in kde-chunk.xsl, used in kde-navig.xsl).
> 
> I've tested making handbooks and generating straight HTML (you can see the
> HTML on http://kdesvn-build.kde.org/documentation/) and looked at a few
> handbooks afterwards to see if I left out anything major.  I don't think I
> have but if so, it's just CSS, just let me know.
> 
> So, what are your thoughts?
> 
> Regards,
>  - Michael Pyne

This is much like the CSS I'm using for the emails for Direktor (once it's
ready for public use....) I like it.

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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