Re: Attracting newbies
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On 02/06/07 21:56, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:46:09PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/06/07 21:26, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:09:30PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
>
>>> 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?
>>
> That I'm the only one left on the planet with a printer that right now
> can't print ps even with gs-esp. Its a mechanical problem with the
> printer. Its 26 years old.
Geez, what is it? A C.Itoh Gorilla Banana? A Diablo 630? An LA50?
>> 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
>
> No penguin.
>
> I just read the policy manual and other than packages _must_ provide a
> man page, debian is moving towards all documentation being in html.
That's a good thing. Hypertext is too useful. And all the Debian
html docs are console-friendly. Too many of the DDs are CLI fans to
be otherwise. And most upstream docs are text-heavy also. This
works perfectly:
links2 file:///usr/share/doc/python2.5-doc/html/index.html
> Documentation in other formats may be provided in addition at the
> package maintainer's discretion.
>
> I'm downloading debiandoc-doc now so I can see what's up with it.
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