Re: [db-wg] DB manuals in HTML?

[Shane Kerr shane@localhost]

Wilfried,

I find using manuals on a computer is a lot handier in a web browser
than in a PDF reader. If you want to print it, then sure, PDF is great.

But having a page break in the middle of a paragraph because it happens
to not fit on an A4 is annoying when I am scrolling. Plus if I am on a
computer with a smallish screen, or want to look at the text at the same
time as something else, then HTML format is much nicer than PDF.

In theory having content broken down into smaller bits makes sense, but
I usually find that I go for the "one big HTML" version and just use
search to find what I'm looking for.

The first hit from googling for "pdf vs html" sums it up nicely:

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/pdf-vs-html.html

--
Shane

On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 20:10 +0000, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
> Hi Shane,
> 
> I am pretty illiterate when it comes to saving stuff in different formats :-/
> Would simply converting it to HTML, ie. into a long, monolithic, linear
> document really be such a big advantage?
> 
> I'm thinking somehow along the lines of other formats of on-line, web-based,
> documentation, which offers reasonably small info-bites per page, and an
> integrated navigation structure.
> 
> Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > While looking around to confirm my understanding of how the database
> > works with organisation objects, I discovered that all of the database
> > manuals are available in PDF only.
> > 
> > This makes me sad.
> > 
> > I'd prefer these be available in HTML format. If it's not too much
> > trouble, could "Save as..." be set to HTML and those versions put up as
> > well?
> > 
> > Pretty please?
> > 
> > --
> > Shane
> 
> Should we put this onto the agenda for Lisbon?
> 
> Wilfried.
>