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Date:      Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:32:08 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: Changing the documentation's font style.
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On 12 April 2013 13:47, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Most people have already configured their browsers with what they think
> is a fairly good font for reading generic text. There's nothing
> particularly special about our documentation that gives us knowledge
> they didn't have when they made the choice.

Most people have never opened the options screen of their browser, let
along modified the default font.

> The equation is different for people who don't know that they *can*
> change their browser font settings at all. I wouldn't have thought that
> there were really that many such people in the grand scheme of things,
> but I'll admit that this discussion does seem to cast that assumption
> into question.

The vast majority of people don't know they can change their default font.


-- 
Eitan Adler



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