On 6/21/2011 8:58 PM, Gary Schnabl wrote:
On 6/21/2011 6:32 PM, John Cleland wrote:
Hi Jean
-----Original Message----- From: Jean Hollis Weber
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:21 PM
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 21:49 +0100, John Cleland wrote:
When checking the PDF version of the Calc guide I found it hard,
compared to html to move around the document. I would like to
propose that an HTML version is produced. I would be happy to
undertake the work.
I am not sure what open source html producers/editors are
available, but will do some research into what is available.
Does anyone else think this is a good/bad idea.
The following questions are to help me get a better idea of exactly
what you are proposing.
Are you proposing to do this for all the guides, or just the Calc
Guide?
I am proposing to do this for all guides
Where do you propose to put the HTML version?
Somewhere on the documentation Website
Why HTML and not wiki?
I envisage an HTML page that looks similar to a .chm file where the
contents are down the left and the text on the right.
How do you propose to keep the HTML version up to date?
Not thought about this, I think the only way would probably be manually
BTW, my general view is that if someone has an idea, they should
just run with it. I do that all the time. ;-)
--Jean
I think HTML is so much easier than a PDF to use that it is worth
looking at
The major drawback with (X)HTML is that each browser developer will
render the code somewhat differently. Display sizes and resolutions
vary all across the board among disparate users, also. Liquid-CSS
layouts can assist with the variable display-size problem, though.
OTOH, PDF files are better standardized than (X)HTML files, and a PDF
can be set up with very high-quality layouts that print very well,
whereas (X)HTML files are not so hot with their graphics. In addition,
PDFs are fairly easy to resize when displayed and to navigate from
page to page, if that is desired.
Perhaps, you might save yourself a lot of time, effort, and grief
instead by learning how to use PDFs more effectively.
Gary
Another major plus for PDFs is that any Adobe Acrobat Professional
versions from around Acrobat 6 (of yesteryear...) can enable a very
useful functionality to PDFs so that anybody with the free Adobe Reader
can make markup directly upon the PDFs. I employ that functionality with
nearly all my clients for the PDFs I make, whether they are
works-in-process, finished projects, or simple copyediting runs.
To demonstrate that, I will take the PDF version of the Writer Guide
and, using Acrobat Professional, will impart that functionality to it,
so that any user with Abode Reader can easily do such markup on it.
Adobe calls that Comment and Review (or more recently, Comment and
Analysis), in case anybody cares to conduct a web search on the subject.
Gary
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