Daniel Frey wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
While Rene was wrangling fonts I forgot that I went through this whole process with Bill Venners of Artima. We ended up with a very different answer, because Bill abhors the idea of specifying a font size; he wants to respect peoples' preferences. I would appreciate it if everybody would check out:
http://www.artima.com/cppsource/metafunctions.html
and see how it compares with Rene's page at
http://redshift-software.com/~grafik/boost/index.htm
on your sundry browsers. I don't have an idea of which one is better, but we should at least get the benefit of that research.
The first page (Aritma) uses the font size *I* specified, while the second page seems to use a smaller font. Obviously, I think the first is preferable. (Firefox 1.0, screen size 1600x1200)
The first one looks strikingly similar to QuickBook and the new L&F of the generated boostbook docs that Eric and I worked on sometime ago (example): http://tinyurl.com/48kv5 I did notice that the fonts were a little bit fat and some people noted that the line spacing isn't quite right. I worked on it some more and found the best setting to be (example): http://tinyurl.com/6crgp This is somewhere in between Bill Venners 's and Rene's. While searching for the best size/line-spacing (all relative, BTW), I did try something like Rene's but found it to be too small. Also, it's not just the font size; line spacing matters a lot too. Cheers, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net