[kde-doc-english] Quick review: GUI elements in PDF

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:10:52 +0200, T.C. Hollingsworth  
<tchollingsworth at gmail.com>:

> Hi Yuri and Burkhard!
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de>  
> wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 19:33:58 schrieb Yuri Chornoivan:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Current conversion system of d.k.o treats GUI elements in docbook as  
>>> the
>>> plain text. This is strict traditional approach. On the other hand HTML
>>> conversion CSS has extansive system of coloring (enhancing) formatting.
>>>
>>> So, I just need a quick review.
>>>
>>> What do you think about GUI elements representation in the following  
>>> files
>>> (~400 KB each, plain text)?
>>>
>> In the HTML on d.k.o Line have the same distance, no matter if a word  
>> (gui
>> element) is highlighted or not.
>> In the PDFs the distance for lines with highlighted words is bigger than
>> without, that gives a font type face.
>
> A few more stylistic nitpicks:
>
> The boxes that contain letters with descenders ('p', 'q', etc.) are
> larger than boxes without them.  (See View -> Redisplay at the bottom
> of Page 2 for an example.)  I'm not sure how you're doing the
> highlighting, since this isn't in SVN yet, but IIRC the "soul" package
> in CTAN does this sort of thing without these issues:
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/soulutf8

That was \fcolorbox, so soul cannot help there. It's bad Palatino metrics.

> Also, IMHO it would look nicer if <guibutton>s were colored like the
> rest of the <gui*> elements.  (I like the black borders for those too,
> though.)

What if just use another typeface for them?

Examples:

1. Bold:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/kleo_bf.pdf

2. Sans serif (as in KDE GUI):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/kleo_sf.pdf

3. Sans serif + Bold:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/kleo_bs.pdf

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Just for comparison, PDF generated by the raw dblatex 0.3:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/kleopatra.pdf