New site - font-size issues

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 7 03:32:35 PDT 2005


On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:20:26AM -0700, Darrien wrote:
> 
> I hear you. Small, fixed, or other forced font sizes have decimated
> the internet for me. Not only are they unreadable to me, but they
> cause distortion and other artifacts such as text running off of a
> background color, odd line-wrapping and other such things.
> 
> I've sent emails to various webmasters, but none of them ever bothered
> to change anything. I sincerely hope that that won't be the case here.
> 
> My question to developers is this: Is the old website going to be
> updated and maintained? If so, for how long? If it's not going to be
> maintained, then I probably won't be using FreeBSD for very much
> longer. This isn't a hissy fit or an ultimatum, it's reality. If I
> can't read my OS's documentation without getting eyestrain headaches
> or jumping through hoops, then my only choices are to clog up mailing
> lists, forums, IRC channels etc. with stupid questions; or try to
> guess at how things work with a lot of trial and error.
> 
> The latter option isn't fair to me and the former option isn't fair to
> everyone else, so the only real choice is to switch to an OS with
> documentation I can read.
>
[...]

The documentation rendering is still the same as before, for example
have a look at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

As before, you can CVSup the doc, build it and render it as you wish
(HTML, PDF, plain text, etc.).  Well, I don't see why you are worried.

Marc


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