On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Graham Percival<gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > To counter-act the "texi2html looks boring" idea, here's a new > version: > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html
Cool! I think this is a definite improvement to the website's organization. I really wish we could port everything to XHTML, since it makes designing a little easier, but I guess we will have to use HTML 4.0 Transitional. > 1) *NO*, I don't think the garish colours and backgrounds look > good. I'm showing that we can do whatever we want, not proposing > that red-text-on-black-image is easy to read! > > I'm probably the worst graphics designer on this list, so I'm not > even going to *pretend* to be a graphics designer. If we end up > going this route, then OF COURSE we'll ask those people to produce > a beautiful css file. I would be willing to work on the CSS when everything is ready. There are some major annoyances that texi2html has (like using <table class="menu" ...> instead of something more reasonable like <div class="menu">), but these issues can be worked around. > - we also probably want to remove the <h1>section-name</h1> from > the page. Not a big deal. Or we could just hide it. I'm already hiding "The music typesetter" on this page, because I could not think of a good place to put it: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/index > - texinfo enforces the "content vs. presentation" thing. All our > webpages will have a consistent look; it's not *possible* to > do weird hacks in texinfo to create odd stuff for individual > pages. (at least, not without modifying the global css file as > well) If there is a way to change the "class" or "id" for tags on individual pages, then we could use the same global CSS file. > - I think it would be cool. Everybody "knows" that texinfo is > boring and bland; I think it would be really neat to have a > fancy website created from texinfo. It could also serve as a > great example for other projects as to the possibilities of > texi2html. I think we all agree that it's been great for our > manuals, after all! I agree. Thanks for working on this! -Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
