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Manuscript describing open collaborative writing with Manubot
https://greenelab.github.io/meta-review
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Reviewer 2 comment 5 #134

Closed agitter closed 5 years ago

agitter commented 5 years ago

The layout of the PDF and the HTML could benefit from a better template (and font stack). This a totally minor point, but it might help to attract new people.

vincerubinetti commented 5 years ago

Definitely agreed. I think the new redone default theme is significantly cleaner and more consistent. Once done with the heavier functionality work (namely the plugins), I was also going to make a few extra themes with different styles, including a more traditional serif, "elegant" look, like this or this.

Aesthetics are often considered a minor point, but I do believe it influences people on a subconscious level and affects usage in various ways over the long run.

agitter commented 5 years ago

@vincerubinetti your works helps us a lot with this comment. I suggest that you continue working on your front end improvements and re-organization as planned and then we summarize the updates in the response to reviewers and this manuscript. The themes and plugin organization should be described in the paper.

agitter commented 5 years ago

I assigned @vincerubinetti because his pull request #168 already addresses this.

vincerubinetti commented 5 years ago

I'd say this can probably be closed. It's a somewhat subjective thing, obviously, but I think the new theme addresses the "stale" look. Aesthetic appeal is always on the front of my mind when developing things, and it's also a never-ending/on-going thing, so it probably doesn't need to be tracked in an issue (assuming you feel the new theme gets us most of the way there).

dhimmel commented 5 years ago

Let's close this with https://github.com/greenelab/meta-review/issues/168

agitter commented 5 years ago

Let's close this with #168

Yes. We could also link https://github.com/manubot/rootstock/issues/189 or https://github.com/manubot/rootstock/issues/192 in the response letter to show where we are going next with aesthetics.