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On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Fred Baube wrote:
> 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.
there is fix. it's called XML. and lots of ppl still use latex for
docs. although they are moving towards docbook nowadays..
http://www.docbook.org/
sakke
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