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Re: cygwin faq ready for presentation review.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>

> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:55:26PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> >> To be honest.. I dislike having the index (Cygwin home,
Cygwin/xfree86
> >> home, development.. ) to the left (right too) of a long text.. it
> >> steals margin - if you scroll down a bit you have a white left
> >> margin..
> >
> >I'm with Andrew on this.  When you are reading a long document, you
are
> >reading a long document.  You are not navigating a web site.  I've
gotten
> >this opinion from reading the FAQs of other projects:
>
> Oddly enough, I have always considered it a bug that the cygwin faq
did
> not display that bar on the left.

Ditto.

> For a long time, text on the cygwin web pages actually jumped to
column
> 1 when it hit the end of the bar.  I never liked that layout, either.

Uhmm, I'm not sure what you mean here. Does the draft faq stylesheet do
that?

Rob

> I'm not a fan of excesive white space but the extra margin invoked by
> the bar on the left never really bothered me for some reason.
>
> cgf
>


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