I could picture a very 21st century, "electronic" PoP that presented an "index" to the detailed descriptions in the form of a table that could be sorted on name, on mnemonic, on hex opcode, etc.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 8:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Reader Comment on SA22-7832-08 (PoPS), should I? I am wondering if anybody else has the same problem that I have with how the Principles of Operation, in PDF format, is laid out. Basically, in today's electronic world, why is this publication still formatted in two columns? On my normal PC, in portrait mode, I must either view an entire page at a time (which even on my 27" monitor makes the characters a bit small), or I must pgdn, then pgup to read the second column. And even when I view the entire page on a single screen, the "jump" from the bottom of column 1 to the top of column 2 is irritating. Would it be worth while to tell IBM that the document would be much more readable if it were like the other manuals; having only one column of text, except perhaps for tables? I wonder if it would be worth my while to try to OCR the PDF to create something that I could import into a true DTP program (and I'm not talking MS Word! Perhaps LaTex). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
