On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2017, at 3:32 AM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> > wrote: > > That may have been done that way to make the docs.racket-lang.org page look > better (to draw your eye to the right manual). > > > I figured. > > But hard-coding formatting inside `title` is a blunt instrument. It's not > restricted to the TOC, but instead manifests globally. And, because it's > implemented with "font-weight: bold" and not a CSS class, it's difficult to > manipulate from outside (unless you employ the Hendershott Method) > > Forbidding `title` formatting entirely is not the answer. For instance, "How > to Design Programs Teachpacks" should rightly have non-negotiable italics; > "raco: Racket Command-Line Tools" should have non-negotiable code formatting > for `raco`. In those cases, formatting is intrinsic to the meaning. > > But bold has no semantic purpose — it's just an emphasizer. And there are > better ways to emphasize things in the TOC (e.g., page position, whitespace)
Absolutely. Feel free to change it. Robby -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
