On 10/18/22 00:26, Sandra Loosemore wrote: > On 10/17/22 07:28, Martin Liška wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Based on the very positive feedback I was given at the Cauldron Sphinx >> Documentation BoF, >> I'm planning migrating the documentation on 9th November. There are still >> some minor comments >> from Sandra when it comes to the PDF output, but we can address that once >> the conversion is done. > > My main complaint about the PDF is that the blue color used for link text is > so light it interferes with readability. Few people are going to print the > document on paper any more, but I did try printing a sample page on a > grayscale printer and the blue link text came out so faint that it was barely > visible at all.
Sure, I've just added support for monochromatic PDF output where one needs to use MONOCHROMATIC=1 make latexpdf ... and I linked the file here: https://splichal.eu/scripts/sphinx/gcc/_build/latexmonochromatic/gcc.pdf right now I build only one PDF in this mode and it's mentioned here: https://splichal.eu/scripts/sphinx/ What do you think about it now? > An E-ink reader device would probably have similar problems. There ePUB would be likely better output format. What do you think? Martin > > I'm generally not a fan of the other colors being used for formatting, > either. To me it seems like they all interfere with readability, plus in > code samples it seems like random things get highlighted in random colors, > instead of focusing on the thing the example is trying to demonstrate. > > I've been preferring to use the PDF form of the GNU manuals because it is > easier to search the whole document that way. The search feature in the new > web version doesn't quite cut it.... it gives you a list of web pages and > then you have to do a second browser search within each page to find the > reference. So I hope we can continue to support the PDF as a canonical > format and better tune it for easy readability, instead of assuming that most > people will only care about the online web version. > > -Sandra > > > >
