I've spent the last day or so, in between shoveling out my driveway, creating a new HiveDoc XSLT stylesheet with pretty darn good results. I think this is more readable, and better layed out (to support more tweaking of the CSS). Still not as pretty as Spring's equivalent (and is thiers a direct result of ours, or parallel evolution?).
Ye gods, Howard! Read Tufte, please! My head hurts!
ReplyDeleteSee, for example, the "Layering and Separation" chapter of his "Envisioning Information" book, which discusses the "1 + 1 = 3 or more" problem -- the headache-inducing aspect of your design -- in quite some detail. See www.edwardtufte.com.