Re: [DOCS] Example indenting

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 16:33, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
>> On 23 August 2010 14:43, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Hm, both pages render acceptably for me in Safari --- it's true that the
>>> examples aren't inset relative to the text on the main-docs site, but
>>> I don't see anything "messed up" beyond that.  What browser are you
>>> using?  Could you post a screenshot of what you see?
>
>> By "mess" I mean examples aren't sufficiently distinct from paragraph
>> text.  There's nothing actually malformed.  It's more of a styling
>> issue from my perspective.
>
> Ah, I see.  It looks like you are using a monospaced font that is
> visually very similar to your regular text font, and so with neither
> a font difference or insetting, there's indeed not a lot to distinguish
> example from text.  On my display the two fonts are a bit more visually
> distinct so it's more readable.  (Checks preferences ... I've got Safari
> set to Times 16 for "standard font" and Courier 13 for "fixed-width
> font", though I'm not sure whether the PG docs pages make use of those
> selections.)
>
> Anyway, that was a red herring, and the question remains why the
> examples are rendered without insetting on the main docs pages.
> Was that intentional?  I can see that it might be because the text
> is already inset from the window edge more than it is on the devel site,
> and so insetting the examples even more might result in page width
> problems.  Maybe the problem is not so much that we want to indent the
> examples more as that the text needs to be indented less.

Not having dug into any details, but it seems that example is tagged
with CSS class PROGRAMLISTING - which isn't included anywhere in the
main site CSS. Whereas on the developer site, tehre is a rule for it
that gives margin-left: 4ex. Probably worth experimenting with that
one.

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