[racket-dev] [racket] scribble formatting tweak?

[ moved to dev ]

This looks really great! Playing around with the CSS a little, I think
that it would be better if the words were all lowercase (delete
"text-transform: capitalize;" from plt/doc/racket.css to try it out).

Robby

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I've pushed this change to the git repo.
>
> At Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:02:26 -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
>> With Scribble-formatted API documentation, one thing I kinda miss from
>> Lisp-y manuals (such as those formatted by Texinfo, or CLtL2) is a
>> better cue that something is documenting, say, a procedure, rather than
>> syntax, rather than a parameter.
>>
>> One way to do this with Scribble would be to subtly add a label to the
>> light blue background for definition syntax synopses.  For example
>> (click the second thumbnail): http://imgur.com/a/xFTFn
>>
>> Of course, with this particular format, the definition could obscure
>> this label, so unless you wanted to make the label a really big font
>> that was intended to be obscured (which doesn't really fit the look of
>> the manuals), it would complicate formatting.
>>
>> Or you could put the label in the right margin, where footnotes go, but
>> I'd actually like to get rid of the right margin as a necessary thing
>> later, and turning footnotes into hover slide-outs when there isn't
>> enough horizontal room, so I'm not fond of putting anything new in the
>> margins that we'd want visible as cues.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> Neil V.
>>
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