Re: [jamboost] Re: V2 documentation format: a resolution?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-09 02:25:39

Kirill Lapshin wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> > That gradient background, in particular, is one element which I think
> > looks cool for the first two minutes but then gets to be a little
> > distracting after a while.
>
> I second this. After browsing spirit docs for few minutes, I had to turn
> off images. IMO good old black on white is the best for textual
> information. Coloring code snippets is great, but the main text body
> should left untouched, we should use whatever color, font face and size
> user selected.

I think I'll have to third this. As I've said on Boost.Book list, non-white 
background is too progressive for me ;-)

I think V2 doc style is close to be finished now. It's at 

http://zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su/~ghost/Boost.Build.docs2/

and we'll appreciate all comments. And it does not use neither background 
image, not gradient background ;-)

- Volodya