On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Jason Grout
<jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
>
> chris wuthrich wrote:
>>
>>  i have some questions and suggestion on the RestructuredText. I am a
>> ReST-newbie and so maybe these things have been discussed before.
>>
>>  * In one of my files i have a line "power_series = series". This
>> produces the full docstring of series to appear twice in the
>> documentation, once under series and once under power_series. How can
>> I exclude the alias ?
>>
>>  * Generally I am very happy with the outputs of the documentation
>> using sphinx. But there are some improvement that one could think
>> about. For instance I think there are too many different fonts used,
>> that is a bit ugly. More importantly I think that the examples and the
>> warnings are more emphasized than the actual command that is
>> documented. Also the commands and not well-seperated. To someone who
>> is not used, this might look confusing. Of course, I have absolutely
>> no idea if this can be changed or not.
>>
>>  * The docstrings become much longer now that we have to add
>> additional empty lines. This is not very nice when using foo? or tab-
>> completion in the notebook. Also the `` `` are annoying there. Is it
>> not possible that the printing of the docstring there is simplified ?
>
> Soon we will have html documentation in the notebook, so this won't be
> an issue there.
>
>
> On a different note, can we change the background color of examples?  In
> my opinion, that green is just a bit too strong.

It's not green, it is grey, and I also really don't like it either.

>  It's also hard to read
> the blue text in strings against the green background.  (After playing
> with it for a while) I propose a soft light yellowish off-white color,
> like #fffff4.  The syntax highlight colors stand out better, and the
> whole thing is easier to read.  Plus, the barely-yellow color matches
> nicely with the blue-green of the titlebar, etc.

A big <font size=+5>+1</font> to that!

William

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