Documentation (Re: Attracting newbies)
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On Tuesday 06 February 2007 23:15, Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>
was heard to say:
> 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.
HTML is far more flexible than PDF in terms of page width. PDF being
fixed page width, that is. Makes reading PDF documents very heavy
work on my Zaurus.
Also, Lynx works for HTML in console/terminal mode, while a PDF is a
complete loss without a GUI. So indeed, if documentation is to be
written, HTML beats PDF. If the documentation is in a directory, such
as /usr/share/doc/foo, there's no worry about including graphics
since they can simply be included in the same directory.
Nay-sayers are going to ask, "Who doesn't have a GUI?" It's difficult
to counter that without sounding like an a**hole, but seriously,
isn't that why there is more than one distribution?
Curt-
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