From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BC1BC58 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:55:27 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aj8EAMvjjkyNTDBjgWdsb2JhbAChThUBARYiIsJ2hUAEhH+FKA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,363,1280700000"; d="scan'208";a="67550838" Received: from os.inf.tu-dresden.de ([141.76.48.99]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 14 Sep 2010 11:55:27 +0200 Received: from [2002:8d4c:3001:48:222:68ff:fe19:71d] (helo=blau.inf.tu-dresden.de) by os.inf.tu-dresden.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) id 1OvSEY-0000iP-93; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:55:26 +0200 Received: from tews by blau.inf.tu-dresden.de with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OvSEW-00014T-Ue; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:55:25 +0200 From: Hendrik Tews MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19599.18060.461332.705041@blau.inf.tu-dresden.de> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:55:24 +0200 To: bluestorm Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Enhanced Ocaml Documentation 3.12 In-Reply-To: References: <19594.14241.815553.755280@blau.inf.tu-dresden.de> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.0 under 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-Spam: no; 0.00; hendrik:01 tews:01 tews:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 overkill:01 overkill:01 hendrik:01 enhances:98 border-style:98 border-width:98 tu-dresden:01 caml-list:01 caml-list:01 writes:01 bluestorm writes: Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:04:36 +0200 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Enhanced Ocaml Documentation 3.12 Very interesting ! Could you provide more information on the technical side : did you edit the manual by hand, or use an automatic diffing process ? I diff the txt versions of the reference manual and change the html version by hand. For the grammar rule index I use a tool and manual editing. > This version of the Ocaml manual enhances the original html > version in the following way: > > - Changes (wrt version 3.10) are tagged with icons and color I find the "yellow background" style a bit hard on the eye for large changes. While it's useful for small changes (words or sentences), it's overkill and incomfortable for large paragraphs. Yes, these yellow sections are an overkill. However, everybody knows that 7.10-7.17 are new. So I only marked them for consistency. Most people know about these changes already and won't read them again in the enhanced manual. I would be happy to propose a better visual style, however this is made quite difficult by your use of non-semantic markup such as:
Could you use CSS instead ? I'll keep this in mind for 3.13. If you have suggestions for better color combinations I am very interested. However, I will not change version 3.12 again, I already spent too much time on it. Bye, Hendrik