[Pdweb] reStructured Text font is tiny

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Mon May 29 12:06:55 CEST 2006


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On May 29, 2006, at 11:16 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> 
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to bump up the font sizes in RST?  The `` ``
>>
>> why not use StructuredText ? (i found rst impractical at the least)
>> (oh again one of those IO answers: "you don't want to do that"...)
> 
> The syntax is horrid when trying to include code.  It was interpreting 
> all of the *'s in the functions (char *, etc).  Actually, I'd much 

oh, does it? this is bad.

however, i usually use single quotes (ST) to get 'code' and it works 
pretty well.
http://puredata.info/Members/zmoelnig/delme

> prefer mediawiki/dokuwiki style syntax, it works much better.  I spend 
> very little time reading syntax charts with those, while with ST and RST 
> I find I am constantly debugging the syntax.

i never made my way around RST, but i am pretty fine with ST.
anyhow, i don't know a simple way to include mediawiki style without 
breaking everything in the next upgrade...

> 
>>
>>> inline quote font is almost unreadable.
>>
>> in such cases i usually push "Ctrl++" on my firefox...
> 
> Hardly a solution.  Everyone should really just use lynx with the 
> console font.

which is the other option :-)
or use a browser for the blind (i hope it won't muffle the tiny fonts)

anyhow, on first glance i wasn't able to find the culprit (but actually 
i never made it into css-writing either)


mfg.asdr.
IOhannes




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