[TYPO3-doc] Small improvements to official documentation template

[François Suter]

Hi folks,

Here goes the next version:

http://drp.ly/1IiXef

Changes:

- following the discussion about the tables, I made something close to 
Hermann's 5th proposal, but went for italics instead of bold for the 
"main items" in the table. I think it's quite ok and far nicer on the 
eyes than bold.
- about being able to distinguish between "1" and "l" in URLs, I 
experimented with various monospaced fonts. I was pretty happy with 
Lucida, but the good variants are only commercially available. So I went 
for Vera Sans Monospace which gives very good results for preformatted 
text IMO and is a open source font.
- this was starting to make a lot of fonts, so I changed all the 
headings to use Vera Sans instead of Tahoma. It's a bit wider, but I 
don't think that makes such a difference.
- which brings me back to the tables: inside the cells themselves, the 
font used is Arial, but it's very compact, which is good for such 
tables. I tried to move it to Vera Sans too and the result is just not 
good. So I think we're stuck with three fonts, which is a bit much 
according to typography's golden rules, but I'm not sure we can achieve 
better without actually having to buy a large font family (like Lucida) 
which would give us all the variety we need but would be a license 
nightmare with so many contributors.

To be complete I should mention that the topic of changing the manual's 
template has been on a separate agenda for a couple of days now, but 
I'll make a separate post about this. Suffice it to say here that I 
think we have reached a pretty satisfying result for now. More could be 
achieved but would require a change of process IMO. I think we should 
settle on a template soon, because there are some new manuals pending 
and some older ones that need an update.

I'm not trying to close this discussion prematurely (and - again - I'm 
very happy about it), but it could potentially last for a very long time 
(although opinions have not diverged very much), so we should try to 
bring it to a close in the not so far future.

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch