Re: Attracting newbies
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On 02/06/07 21:26, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:09:30PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
>
>> The way I see it all that we'll need is HTML, PDF, and plain text. Plain
>> text is the easiest to read through a terminal window, and it should be
>> how we write the original documentation. Once we finish a full plain
>> text version we can worry about converting it to other formats.
>>
>> HTML is nice for viewing over the internet, and whenever possible I
>> prefer HTML over PDF. Especially since you can tie URLs in HTML to other
>> points on the page, so that you can link someone back and forth
>> throughout a single page quickly and easily.
>>
>> PDF is good for it's sleekness really, I know nothing about the PDF
>> format so I'm going to completely leave this in someone else's hands.
>> But since PDF supports images, why don't we add in a few images for the
>> PDF version? (Maybe the HTML version, but I really do think that this
>> project should be as text based as possible.)
>>
>
> Pdf can have internal links as well as a table of contents that one can
> click on. On the other hand, one needs X to read it and a postscript
> capable printer to print it (yes I know...).
Know what? That you don't need a PS printer to print PS & PDF files?
> HTML can be read with lynx or mc as long as it doesn't have pictures and
> has the advantage that it has links to click through a document to what
> one wants.
links2 is your friend. If a penguin pops up on your console during
the boot phase, then you can read graphic web pages using:
$ links2 -g
> Plain text, is, well, plain text.
>
> So if we go with plain text +/- simple html, we need a home for it and a
> way to work on it.
>
> Isn't it ironic that here we are fitzing around trying to set up a
> documentation method when that is what UNIX was designed to do as its
> primary role when it was invented?
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