[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: Format text in <p/> into a block

[Martin Kletzander]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 01:28:05PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 01:37:17PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> On 02.12.2016 12:27, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 12:02:54PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> >> With the rework of our webpage I've also noticed that we can make
>> >> our <p/> block look more uniform: stretch the lines so that each
>> >> has the equal width. Just like if you hit "align to block" in
>> >> your favourite text editor.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  docs/generic.css | 1 +
>> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/docs/generic.css b/docs/generic.css
>> >> index a6b2354df..4c8887d6d 100644
>> >> --- a/docs/generic.css
>> >> +++ b/docs/generic.css
>> >> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ p, ul, ol, dl {
>> >>  p {
>> >>    margin-top: 1em;
>> >>    margin-bottom: 1em;
>> >> +  text-align: justify;
>> >>  }
>> >
>> > Justified text ends up looking very ugly unless the layout engine is also
>> > capable of doing automatic hyphenation of words - without hyphenation, if
>> > you have a long word that gets pushed to the next line, you get huge whitespace
>> > gaps between words.
>> >
>> > More specific to the libvirt site - it looks very odd to have <p>
>> > justified, but nothing else - eg looking at formatdomain.html, we end
>> > up with a mix of justified and non-justified text, depending on whether
>> > we've used a <li>, <dl> or <p> for the particular bit of docs.
>>
>> So you're not against the idea if I include other elements too? Or we
>> should postpone it until we have the automatic hyphenation engine?
>
>I'm not really seeing any compelling benefit to justification and clear
>downsides. The hyphenation mitigates it somewhat, but its still pretty
>poor compared to how a proper print layout engine does justification,
>to the extent that I don't really see any point.
>
>This blog describes it in a clearer detail that I can:
>
>  http://designforhackers.com/blog/never-justify-type-on-the-web/
>
>...many other blogs say basically the same too
>

Oh, if designers say so...  But to be honest, they all use it (and show
it) on pages that use 20% of my screen width, which is IMHO even more
stupid.

>Regards,
>Daniel
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