On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:17:44 +0200 (CEST), Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: >I'd like to hear some noice from people writing configurators, just to see >where they are heading.. and from people thinking of improving the doc's, >having multiple language variants, etc.
I am the author of ServerConfig/2, GUI config util for OS/2. What i was looking for, was a 'version' of the Apache documentation which could be compiled under the OS/2 help file format. Which ofcourse i did my converting HTML into that format (.IPF). Although its not a perfect copy of the HTML code, it gives me the base to modify it any way i want. This is not much use to most of you since you don't use OS/2, but i just wanted to say that a platform/os-independend documentation would be the best option for everyone. Another important issue is portability, HTML is a good choice since it can be converted into many other formats, like online Help facilities, unlike PDF which needs a PDF viewer and can't be called within a program as online help. XML is a good choice, but you have to consider that the Apache documentation must also exist online in Apache's website, and HTML is a more suitable format since it can be browsed by older browsers. � H.I.C. & D.B.S. � OS/2 Warp � Hellas � � ServerConfig � InfoHICmag � OS/2 UK UG � � Windows - The Gates of hell.
