On 10 September 2010 21:59, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Thom Brown wrote:
>> >> > Here is what I think you want to see. ?This is my screen with
>> >> > proportional and fixed set to 14, with javascript turned off:
>> >> >
>> >> > ? ? ? ?http://momjian.us/tmp/pg_manual3.png
>> >> >
>> >> > That looks right. ?This is Ubuntu with Firefox 3.6.9.
>> >> >
>> >> > And this is the display of my font defaults:
>> >> >
>> >> > ? ? ? ?http://momjian.us/tmp/fonts.png
>> >> >
>> >> > Does that help?
>> >>
>> >> Yes, according to these, the proportional font defaults to 16px:
>> >> http://nst.sourceforge.net/nst/docs/tech/ch02s04.html
>> >> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080211131203AA6CErK
>> >
>> > OK, so why are we not just setting the fixed-width font to be the same
>> > size as the proportional? ?We are mixing the two types in the same
>> > paragraph, so why not just set them the same? ?Using the javascript I
>> > sent, you can probe for the preference settings.
>>
>> That javascript checked whether the values were the same, and if they
>> weren't, it introduced a stylesheet which made an adjustment, which is
>> pretty much what the current site does, except we don't bother
>> checking the rendering engine, just the default font settings.
>>
>> It seems that I'm a lot further off than I thought I was. :/ Back to
>> the drawing board.
>
> I think the original adjustment was flawed because it just set a
> percentage change. I think we can just assign them to match, rather
> than trying to figure out what percentage to use. Where is the
> javascript file?
It wasn't introduced for the existing site, but you can grab it from here:
http://pgweb.darkixion.com:8081/media/js/monospacefix.js
http://pgweb.darkixion.com:8081/media/css/monospacefixes.css
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