The layout of the Compendium

Hi Static,

Thanks for at least responding to my message.  I just realized that the
better browsers (Netscape) can override page colors, and print black
text on a white background.  The only thing that makes the pages less
printable are the <table> and <blockquote> tags.  Pulling them out would
be pretty easy, if you use Notepad to edit the text.  You can just have
it hunt and destroy all those tags.  Heck, I'd do it for you if you
want.  And BtM doesn't really need any changing.  The doccos you have
there don't have nearly as much left-hand margin.  They print great as-
is, while Compendium is almost half blank space.  So, in short, I think
there are only a couple things to tweak.  Let me know if I can help you
out at all.

-Colin


On Thursday, Static said:
Greetings gang-who-are-here-during-summer,

In our last episode, Funagain Games said:
>1. Use HTML - in fact, there would be very little change to the current HTML layout.

        Yup.  Nobody seems to want it anything but HTML, which is a good
thing.

>2. Remove the <table> and <blockquote> tags to put everything
closer to the left edge of the page.
>3. Make copies of every page.  One copy would not have alink, vlink,
link, text, or bgcolor attributes.  This would be the printable version.
Each version would have a link to its duplicate at the bottom.

        These two contradict #1... :)  They're *tons* of work.  Or, at least
will be, when I start porting BtM.  Having two copies is probably the option
I like least, since it'll be a nightmare to maintain when people send
corrections and stuff.

        On the bright side, I recently figured out @media, which should solve
a good chunk of the problems.  I just wish we had browsers that supported CSS2
better.

-Static