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Re: Online manuals issues when read from mobile devices


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: Online manuals issues when read from mobile devices
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:27:13 +0100

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 10:35 PM Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> when read from a phone, there are some issues with the documentation
> of emacs, elisp and org-mode that is available online in html format:
> navigation links, subsection entries and code sections are barely
> visible and not proportionate to the body font size, which is not only
> unpleasant to look at but, more importantly, makes it very difficult
> to read and navigate the manuals from a phone.
>
> Please, see the attached screenshots. They were taken using a pretty
> standard Android phone running Chrome, everything more or less
> up-to-date, no weird customizations. Moreover, I've been seeing the
> same or related problems in other phones over the years too.

Some earlier discussion of related issues:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2019-06/msg00000.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2020-03/msg00011.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2021-02/msg00097.html

Note that the viewport declaration is now output by texi2any, e.g. see
at https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/index.html
I hope that the problem should go away if the manual is regenerated
with Texinfo 6.8. So as I understand it, there is nothing to be fixed
in texi2any for this. Please correct me if I am wrong.

I don't know if it could be fixed with CSS. If it could be, it could
potentially be fixed without waiting for the Emacs developers or
others to regenerate the online manual by contacting appropriate
people responsible for GNU webpages. Does anybody have a proposal?



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