From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-Xtra Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:09:58 +0200 Message-ID: <85mzemu2vd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <17469.29694.605871.59144@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17469.53282.265431.557135@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <4nd5flnwtg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nek002s4h.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nodz4ywgg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145124631 17801 80.91.229.2 (15 Apr 2006 18:10:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:10:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 15 20:10:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUpE2-00049j-D8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:10:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUpE1-0003k4-Nx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUpDo-0003jj-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUpDn-0003jO-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUpDn-0003jL-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FUpE2-0000He-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FUpDg-0003im-4k; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 35D311C3D4FB; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:09:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:32:26 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52903 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > - decrease the font size in the published manuals. ORA books and many > others use a noticeably smaller font, and are quite readable. > > We will take a look at that. It might be also an idea to mark out "advanced" sections. Then one could either leave them out or render them with smaller fonts when printing, on the assumption that people would be unlikely to read all of them and ruin their eyes. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum