[FM Discuss] Style Guide?
Martin Kean
Martin.Kean at op.ac.nz
Sat Dec 5 01:35:22 PST 2009
Page typography in the manuals is formatted by the CSS, so typographic conventions and
rules will be expressed in the CSS syntax. There's kind of a default FM
typeface and paragraph style, which works, and is set in stone by the
typography.css.
Or is it? In Objavi, you can modify the CSS for a FLOSS Manual or choose
your own, for instance publication sizes from a drop-down menu.
I can imagine this method as a model for choosing writing styles.
Here is an online typographic style guide that makes suggestions for type formatting
in the form of CSS syntax:
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web,
http://webtypography.net/
Martin
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