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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Sakari Karipuro:
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> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kari Seppälä wrote:
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> the original idea (and use) was to have hypertext documents that would
> look pretty much like technical documentation, for which there is some
> ISO-standard in existence.
I think that in a parallel universe, HTML was just a little bit
better, and it kept MS-Word from conquering offices worldwide.
At the office here we at used HTML for our tech docs for quite
a while. But it's at the point now where the customers want
something else, such as PDF, and I'm guessing that they have
some good reasons for it.
- Table of Contents: It can be done in HTML, but it's a pain to
maintain. I've never seen an HTML editor that could handle them
well. (Of course, I haven't seen too many.)
- Headers and footers and page numbers and an index: These are
all the same thing: how does the HTML lay out on real paper,
and so where do the page breaks fall ? You'd think that with
things like carefully written print drivers, and features that
use the info they provide, like "Print Preview", someone could
have figured this out for HTML -- the issue of where do the page
breaks fall.
I really do suspect that with these things fixed, HTML could be
a kick-ass documentation format -- cross-platform, easy to learn,
easy to write (even in source form), transparent inmport/export
to the Web.
> sakke
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