The Art of Unix Usability (2004)

Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by roryokane on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @07:15PM (#8593171)

If you have the Stylish browser add-on (https://userstyles.org/), you can make this book much easier to read with this custom style I just wrote: “The Art of Unix Programming, and … Usability – improve readability”, https://userstyles.org/styles/107208/.

Here is the main part of the style’s CSS, if you just want to use your developer tools on each page:

    body {
        font-size: 20px;
        line-height: 1.3;
        max-width: 700px;
        margin-left: auto;
        margin-right: auto;
    }

I referred to http://practicaltypography.com/summary-of-key-rules.html when choosing these numbers.

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by abathur on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @10:11PM (#8593801)

I'll note that you can also go to http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/taouu.html for the full book at once, which makes it more feasible to add these styles via console without going nuts and without needing an add-on (or if you're in Safari...).

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by 0942v8653 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @10:56PM (#8593936)

There's a Stylish extension for Safari too.

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by abathur on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @12:13AM (#8594131)

Good to know; userstyles.org doesn't mention it Safari on the page linked, at least.

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by PuffinBlue on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @07:54PM (#8593350)

Much obliged. I'd not heard of Stylish but I'd been making these kind of adjustments (based on similar rules form another less comprehensive site) directly in developer tools, so you've made my life a little easier and I've learnt a little more about good typography.

Thank you.

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by rebolyte on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @09:12PM (#8593619)

And I had heard of userstyles.org, but not read any of practicaltypography.com. Many thanks for introducing me to a concise, well-presented collection of typography best practices.

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by Hz8NSD on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @12:41AM (#8594185)

Thanks for sharing. I'm just beginning to write style like this.

I also recommend Merriweather font for reading.

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by 0942v8653 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @10:54PM (#8593932)

Stylish is really nice (I use it for a lot of things), but Safari has a builtin Readability-type feature (I forget what it's called) that automatically loads the next pages up until the end of the chapter. Even better, and it works on iOS too.

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by aerique on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @03:59AM (#8594578)

Stylish, is really nice. It has been my only option so far of being able to force site to use my preferred fonts since sites started using icon fonts (which makes the "Allow site to use their own fonts" checkbox in Firefox useless).

I've a steady growing databases of styles to use for popular sites. The main problem I still have is I set "font-weight: normal" in a global style which disables bold text.

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by TorKlingberg on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @05:09AM (#8594715)

Is there any site like Readability from a few years ago where you can just paste in a URL and get a cleaned up readable version?

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by sp332 on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @09:39AM (#8595571)

Like... Readability? :) I use it all the time. https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by TorKlingberg on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @01:07PM (#8597074)

Thanks! I couldn't find that page. The readability front page only lets you sign up, which I would rather not.

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Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) by sp332 on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @02:09PM (#8597485)

There's an "Apps & Addons" button at the top, and a Download button at the bottom. This is true even on the mobile version of the page.

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