Want to take part in these discussions? Sign in if you have an account, or apply for one below
Vanilla 1.1.10 is a product of Lussumo. More Information: Documentation, Community Support.
Looking at the page regular representation, I find I’m not overly keen on how there’s no way to see where the end of a definition lies. How do people feel about adding a small bit of CSS to make definitions a little clearer. Theorems aren’t so bad as they are set in italics (though for a consistent look it might be worth doing the same to theorems etc).
I’m thinking of just indenting the text by a small amount. Frölicher space has this but also with a border around it. So it would look a bit like the definition there, only without the border.
I’d like that.
I’ve added a 1em left margin to all the relevant boxes. Let’s see how it looks.
Thanks, Andrew. Alternatively, I’d be happy with a little box (I think some people call it a “tombstone”) to indicate the end of a definition.
The one-right-after-another definitions at regular representation now looks confusing to me. Without the indentation, it would look as though the middle paragraph “The right regular representation is defined analogously.” were not part of either definition. (Actually, I think it is better style not to put more than one paragraph in a Definition environment, but that’s a separate issue.) Now my eye sees the one big indented block of text starting with “Definition 1” and expects it to all be one definition, and is therefore confused when halfway through the indentation a different “Definition 2” begins.
I like Andrew's solution to this problem, although it uncovers another problem that Mike has noticed, which is that sometimes a definition doesn't end when you thought that it should. One might pull those second paragraphs out of the Definition environment, on the grounds that they aren't complete definitions, or alternatively combine them with the first paragraphs.
But I also think that I might get used to reading them as they were written: as two two-paragraph definitions right next to each other.
I agree that the two definitions straight after each other doesn’t look great. In that particular case then it would be possible to adjust them slightly or put a “filler” sentence in between. However, I can imagine that there will be circumstances where you really do want two definitions right after each other, or theorems, or whatever. One option would be to go for a further marking, such as the tombstone or a border. Another would be to not indent the title.
Since making changes is easy, and these aren’t huge changes, I’ve put in place the non-indentation of the title to show how that looks. regular representation is probably still a good test example.
I think the unindented title looks ok.
I like it slightly better with the previous indented title, but it's not a big deal. Don't change it back now.
1 to 9 of 9