Hi Tim, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Tim Michelsen<timmichel...@gmx-topmail.de> wrote: > I would like to suggest to edit the standard stylesheet provided by > http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/lyx.css
The CSS you link is provided as a service to the community; users are encouraged to change it on their documents with the --css option. > To my humble opinion, the generated html should follow the tradition of Lyx > in creating readable, user-friedly and accessible documents. Yes, some thought has been given to that question. Unfortunately producing usable output is much harder than would look at first sight (or that should be); and getting it right for every browser on every platform is not trivial. Font availability, scaling, etc. all change when you switch platforms or even browsers. Many popular sites have given up and just offer different stylesheets depending on the browser, something which is not an option here. You can see some examples at: http://browsershots.org/http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/math.html I am using Firefox on Debian, and you can see that it looks great (or at least I like it). On Windows however Firefox looks quite ugly: fonts are not pretty. IE 7 is a bit ugly but tolerable. > Here are some examples for web pages (personal selection): > * http://www.nvpit.nl/cms/ > * http://robcomm.net/ > * http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python Thanks, those are nice. Unfortunately they are not immediately useful. For one thing they can be judged on personal opinion and taste. But the real problem is that they would probably suffer from cross-platform issues as well. Actually I see the first one with fonts too small and the second one too large. > some hints on web typography: > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/18/10-principles-for-readable-web-typography/ > * http://www.csarven.ca/web-typography Same problems. But let us see if we can get constructive and get something out of this discussion. What we can actually do is: you, or someone else who has taken the trouble to make the output look good on their favorite platform, can send me your CSS files (or a patch against mine). Then I can try to blend those in and still keep the sane look on Debian. Probably we can find a combination of fonts and sizes that look good on the most popular platforms. We can do it; we have already got the character set mostly right thanks to a similar effort by another user. Now is time for good typography! Any takers? Thanks, Alex.
