At least on plain-jane Mozilla 1.7.8 (linux) installed from port recently, this page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/preface-conventions.html has an example of "User and group names", namely "root", which looks the same as the other text surrounding it. At least as an example, it should look different. Viewing the page source, I see: <tt class="USERNAME">root</tt> If this has something to do with "style-sheets", we need some instructions on how to set that up; I and many other users know next-to-nothing about it. How-To-Repeat: n/a
hmm, weird cause the rendering is Ok here with Mozilla 1.7.7 (FreeBSD), did you try with other versions or browsers? Marc
On 2005-07-29 19:00, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: >> At least on plain-jane Mozilla 1.7.8 (linux) installed from port recently, >> this page >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/preface-conventions.html >> has an example of "User and group names", namely "root", which looks the same >> as the other text surrounding it. At least as an example, it should >> look different. > > hmm, weird cause the rendering is Ok here with Mozilla 1.7.7 (FreeBSD), > did you try with other versions or browsers? FYI, It is different from the surrounding text. The surrounding text is "plain text" but the "root" word is displayed with a monospaced font. In small sizes, this is not very obvious, but if you zoom in the larger character box size and the constant width of the characters in the "root" word is more apparent. The specific serif/sand-serif and monospaced fonts that Mozilla (or any browser) is configured to use may also play an important role in making the different easier to see. For instance, using "Arial" as the sans-serif font and "Courier" as the monospaced font makes the difference *much* more visible than say a setup where the sans-serif font is "Verdana" and the monospaced font is "Andale Mono".
Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > hmm, weird cause the rendering is Ok here with Mozilla 1.7.7 (FreeBSD), > did you try with other versions or browsers? No, I have no others installed. Maybe some doc@ readers will report whether "root" looks distinct in the "User and group names" line at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/preface-conventions.html
On 29 Jul 2005, at 20:20, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> writes: > >> >> hmm, weird cause the rendering is Ok here with Mozilla 1.7.7 >> (FreeBSD), >> did you try with other versions or browsers? >> > > No, I have no others installed. Maybe some doc@ readers will report > whether "root" looks distinct in the "User and group names" line at > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ > preface-conventions.html It looks different here on every browser I have (Firefox, Camino, Safari, Internet Explorer). That's because of the browser's default style for <tt> though, as docbook.css has nothing for either the tt element or the username class. Perhaps we should be specifying a font family in the stylesheet? Ceri
Browsers have changed greatly in the last nine years, and the documentation toolchain has changed twice as well. Cursory tests show the root user name appears in a monospaced font as intended.