As another technical writer and editor, I lean heavily on key words searches in PDF in just about any documentation I must read. It's been years since I bothered to look in an index if the document is available in PDF. However, I become very dependent upon the index (and often frustrated chasing blind leads) when only a paper copy is available.
Of course, key word searches turn up many wrong "hits" too, but tapping "next" is much faster than flipping pages and often uncovers some references I want to look at more closely, either right now or later when I've answered the pressing question. I know that Wayne makes use of the MS Word index building facilities in the K3 Owner's manual, managing a concordance file that evolves over time. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Ragle Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 7:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 (Documentation) ... a hint On 12/7/2010 8:24 AM, Sam, KJ4VPI, wrote: (paraphrasing: I love books!) The list (nest?) of features hiding inside the K3 firmware is nearly astonishing, and quite wonderful, but I find the Users' Manual to be almost useless when one needs to find a specific item. The "finder" inside *.pdf readers is very limited. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
