Re: New style sheet for Texinfo 7.x

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Mar 6, 2023, at 22:34, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> 
> On Sunday, March 5th, 2023 at 18:48, Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> This looks great, thanks for posting!
> 
> Glad you like it :)

It's really nice.

It reminds me of what I was trying to do for the Emacs manuals:

https://doublet.jp/gnu/emacs/emacs.html/index.html

JC

> 
> 
>> CSS can really help with making a manual look approachable, especially
>> with adjusting the text block width.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> 
>> Could I suggest that the node navigation header would look better if
>> it wasn't surrounded in white space?
> 
> I agree. The reason it is the way it is is that I didn't find the HTML 
> structure that convenient to lay out the navigation differently. So I decided 
> to wait until the HTML was updated to HTML 5's semantic elements. For 
> example, I'd expect a structure more or less like this
> 
> BODY
>  NAV
>  ARTICLE or MAIN
>  FOOTER
> 
> That way the padding of the ARTICLE wouldn't affect the style of the NAV.
> 
> But I might take another look and see if I can relocate the navigation using 
> the current structure. Also, I'm working on a project called Guile Documentá, 
> where I want to explore rendering the Texinfo tree with a custom HTML 
> structure (not public yet, though).
> 
> 
>> I found the example with a nested @def* block interesting:
>> 
> 
>> https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/texinfo-css/Elements.html#Definitions
>> 
> 
>> It reminded me of this thread:
>> 
> 
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2022-02/msg00000.html
>> 
> 
>> Nested @def* could be a good way to define parameters, return values, and
>> so on. With the new @defline facility the user could define macros like
>> @param that expanded to "@defline Parameter".
> 
> That would be nice because I think those kinds of nested definitions make it 
> easier to find the information you're looking for compared to defining 
> parameters within the paragraphs that explain a given command, procedure, 
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