On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Patrick Connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Sun, 01-Feb-2009 at 11:34PM -0500, Stavros Macrakis wrote: > > |> A first step that would make the current Web page look much better > |> would be to anti-alias the demonstration graphic. The current graphic > |> makes R graphics seem (falsely!) to be very primitive. I'm afraid I > |> don't know how to do the anti-aliasing myself. > |> > |> Replacing the fixed-width, typewriter-style font with something a bit > |> more elegant might also be good.... > > I'd say it would not be good. Fixed-width fonts are desirable when > it's for code (of any language). The example www.knime.org site uses > proportional fonts for R code which makes it hard to read IMHO. I > really dislike that.
But you don't need fixed width fonts for headings... > What's wrong with a spartan look? Google has flourished with a > no-unnecessaries approach to home page clutter. There's nothing wrong with a spartan look. There's something wrong with making simple tasks difficult. Why not do better if we can? Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.