Re: documentation: unreadable html tables

2009-10-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:18:54AM -0700, -Eluze wrote: > > Graham Percival-3 wrote: > > The languages involved are perl, texinfo, and html. In > > particular, the documentation is written in texinfo; a perl script > > (called texi2html) interprets the texinfo files, and outputs html. > > > i ha

Re: documentation: unreadable html tables

2009-10-26 Thread -Eluze
Graham Percival-3 wrote: > > The languages involved are perl, texinfo, and html. In > particular, the documentation is written in texinfo; a perl script > (called texi2html) interprets the texinfo files, and outputs html. > i have some experience with html; texinfo and perl are fully new to me

Re: documentation: unreadable html tables

2009-10-25 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2009 15:59:45 schrieb Graham Percival: > The languages involved are perl, texinfo, and html. In > particular, the documentation is written in texinfo; a perl script > (called texi2html) interprets the texinfo files, and outputs

Re: documentation: unreadable html tables

2009-10-25 Thread Graham Percival
The languages involved are perl, texinfo, and html. In particular, the documentation is written in texinfo; a perl script (called texi2html) interprets the texinfo files, and outputs html. The first step is to reproduce the problem in a small example. Try making a tiny texinfo file, which contain

Re: documentation: unreadable html tables

2009-10-24 Thread -Eluze
no idea if i have enough skills in any of the languages involved (i do not even know which they are!) but if you'd take the risk i would try! pls let me know how to proceed! Graham Percival-3 wrote: > > Unfortunately, I don't think anybody is available to look into > this. If you could start

Re: documentation: unreadable html tables

2009-10-24 Thread Graham Percival
Unfortunately, I don't think anybody is available to look into this. If you could start working on a patch to fix this issue, we'd be happy to help you work on this. Cheers, - Graham On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 02:49:54AM -0700, -Eluze wrote: > > imo tables in the documentation are hardly readable

documentation: unreadable html tables

2009-10-24 Thread -Eluze
imo tables in the documentation are hardly readable because they - are wasting a lot of space so that you have to sroll around to try to get an overview of the table - have no borders so that your eyes have to try to reconstruct columns - have columns of different widths even if the contents a