cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking chapter.sgml

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-07-28 10:58, Murray Stokely <murray at FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 01:54:43PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > I meant to ask a while ago, when I saw similar commits, but I postponed
> > it and then forgot to ask.  When is it considered good style to remove
> > the frames from tables?  Does the choise depend on the output format or
> > is there some other reason?
>
> Frames never look good in print output.  The stylesheets are braindead
> and there is no padding between the contents and the border.  Even if
> that is manually added in the TeX processing stage, it still looks out
> of place because for print output you just want the line separating
> the column headers from the data -- anything else and the page looks
> too cluttered at best, and like a printed web page at worst.

True.  I'll keep this in mind.

> As for HTML output, I don't feel too strongly either way.  I don't
> think with or without frames makes too much of a difference.

I tend to prefer 'without' (or, at least, when frames *are* present, a
style with a very slight possibility of being distracting to the eye).
I'm not going to stand in the way of anyone who adds or removes frames
to HTML output though.

Thanks for a very fast reply :)