-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-11-11 at 23:55 -0600, Constantinos Galilei wrote:
On Wednesday November 11 2009 9:24:54 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
And, there is no open format that can compete with PDF (with a similar feature set), for practical purposes: it is very widely known and supported, on probably every operating system. That is important.
I know, but I misunderstood the original issue (see my other reply on this).
Still, if there was an open format that we could use, it would make sense to provide the documentation in the distro with it if the library for it was installed by default. That's what I meant.
Yes, that would be nice. However... the goal of any documentation reader is to be able to read always, regardless of what computer you have available, or the operating system. The fact is that PDF fulfills that role... a windows user could not read the docs (before installing linux, perhaps) if we used, say, dvi or tex. They are not so popular formats. We could invent some beter format than pdf, sure... but the problem is being able to read it anywhwere. The market has choosen a de-facto standard, which is PDF... so we'd better use it, even if it is not the best one.
Anyway, neither here nor there. I'll just stumble confusedly off at this point.
A good documentation format is something that interests me a lot. I don't fully "love" pdf, but it is what we have... as always with technical choices, it is a compromise. I think there are some other formats used on book readers, but I understand they are even more closed, DRM et al... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkr7/m8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XCEQCfXGfQMcKIf0Tgn/9F2ERg+HU+ XOoAniv3XoFP8rETyOFvU5mFVjNybvlM =3oSP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org