<application> appearance in HTML

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Mon Jun 30 04:46:20 UTC 2014


Hi Warren,

On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:39:47 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > I would keep it and I would keep it as bold. I would only recommend
> > a consequent use of it. Using bold helps to find important
> > locations a bit faster without reading the whole sentence.
> ...
> > The moment the highlighting will only be used for the application
> > and not for the manufacturer, it will be very helpful for the
> > reader.
> 
> Sorry, I missed this message until posting the link to the thread in
> the commit message.
> 
do not worry about this.

> A problem with highlighting in general is that too much of it hides 
> detail.  Some sections of our documents look like "poison pen"
> letters due to all the highlighting.

This is the negative side effect.
> 
> For now, let's try letting application names just be pointed out by 
> capital letters.  If that does not work, we can try something else.

We will see the result and the comments soon.

Erich


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