From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 8:41 AM
On 2014-11-16, at 14:09, zMan wrote:
Sorry you think it "makes no sense". It makes lots of sense to those of us
who have to use it a lot for more than just reading random documents. And
it sure PRETENDS to be a lot more than just a way to PRINT a document (and
even then, it's hardly as portable as it would like to pretend it is).
Indeed; PDF is bloated.
A modest proposal:
The Principles of Operation should be available in machine
readable form sufficiently concise and complete to serve as
input for automatic generation of a disassembler.
che?
Such a document could likewise serve a input to a filter
generating HTML or other hypertext media; PDF; odt; ods;
...; quodlibet.
HTML isn't something that a manual should be in.
It almost never prints properly (prints half-lines etc), doesn't have organised
page numbers or index, etc etc.
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