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From: Bigos <ruby.obj...@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: State of Lisp Documentation, mostly the Common Lisp Cookbook
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On 23/09/12 16:01, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Bigos <ruby.obj...@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> What do you mean saying " You apparently have no code to write, or you
>> would just get on with it."? I think there's a difference between
>> pleasure of doing something and just getting on with it.
>
> It means: just send the css stylesheets to the site authors and if it's
> nice and can be used freely, they'll probably be happy to put it on
> their web server.
>
>
>> Cliki is a good example here and it shows that some of CSS make-up
>> will not hurt. Some sites have much more information per page than the
>> Hyperspec and having nicely styled site is a huge improvement.
>
> Just do it.
>
>
>> I am a noob, so I don't have too much code to write.
>> https://github.com/bigos/Pyrulis/tree/master/Lisp/scripts
>> Partly because of problems with finding required information. It took
>> me few days to write something that in Ruby would take few hours.
>
> I had more difficulty browsing the Ruby reference documents than the
> CLHS.
>
>
>> Maybe I should change my documentation search habits and ask more
>> questions here. But I am still fan of good appearance and I think that
>> with correct graphic design you don't get distractions, but
>> improvement in your productivity.
>
> So help us!  Write nice css and send them.
>
>
>
> Now, on the other hand, I originally understood the separation of style
> from content as a mean for users to have their own style sheets.  Can't
> you just write a style sheet you like, and configure your web browser to
> use it for all or some web sites?
>

Greasmonkey is a very good plug-in for such experiments. So far best 
results I had with improving looks of the CLTL. With other sites I think 
more would have to be done. I guess I would have to mirror part of a 
website in question and try to redesign it to make it more susceptible 
to CSS restyling. I'll experiment a bit and hope to post some results 
within couple of days.