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Re: [opensuse] man pages and PDF
- From: "John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:14:41 -0400
- Message-id: <488F5001.2070409@xxxxxxx>
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
I really like html. For a beautiful example of _good_ documentation,
have a look at http://www.tcl.tk/doc/.
I don't like pdf docs because there's usually very little hyperlinking.
Whether that's a defect of the pdf environment or of the writers, I
don't know.
John Perry
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PDFs are really slow to open.
If you learn some new topic and open 20-30 man pages then it is very
fast. Try that with PDFs.
I dislike PDFs for performance. I prefer man pages, info, or HTML.
I really like html. For a beautiful example of _good_ documentation,
have a look at http://www.tcl.tk/doc/.
I don't like pdf docs because there's usually very little hyperlinking.
Whether that's a defect of the pdf environment or of the writers, I
don't know.
John Perry
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