Manual Contact

[Matthew M. Copeland]

I think that I like this last option best.  The ability to distribute a
file in mutliple formats that are easily readable is probably the best
idea.  One problem with PDF files is that they have a tendency to grow
rather large quickly in comparison to other file formats, thus it will
take a while to download compared to say a text version, or an HTML
version.  I am looking at the sgmltools web site now.

From,
Matthew M. Copeland



On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, John A. Martin wrote:

> >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Thompson
> >>>>> "Re: Manual Contact"
> >>>>>  Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:58:17 -0500
> 
> 
>     Jeffrey> I suggest a PDF formatted manual since you can do:
>     Jeffrey> - Nice Illustration / WYSYWIG format
>     Jeffrey> - Hyperlinks
>     Jeffrey> - Platform Independent
>     Jeffrey> - Build forms processing into the PDF file
>     Jeffrey> - Free reader on every platform, including Linux!
> 
>     Jeffrey> I can help out with this too.  I have Acrobat
>     Jeffrey> 3.0.1/Exchange that can create, and modify PDF files.
> 
> AFIK pdf prints nicely but is very unattractive if not unusable for
> reading "on-line".  Nothing beats GNU info IMHO.  The linux
> documentation project has a sgmltools package that works on several
> platforms and produces LaTeX, HTML, GNU info, LyX, RTF, plain ASCII
> (via groff), and more from a single source.  See
> <http://www.sgmltools.org/>.
> 
> 	jam
>