On Jul 8, 2016, at 7:33 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I still maintain that my preference is for a textual "source" format such > as LaTeX being the official format. With IBM rendering that into PDF, mobi, > epub, and HTML5 as part of its distribution process. I like PDF. I really > do. But the original design objective for PDF, as mentioned previously, is > "print fidelity". That is, it __looks__ the same. In my world, content (not > appearance) is king. LaTeX is basically a textual "mark up" language, like > DCF (SGML). So I can store it on z/OS and actually read it (and > cut'n'paste) in an ISPF session. Am I being too "reactionary" in wanting to > have my documentation on the same system as it is documenting? I.e. z/OS > documentation on z/OS needing only access to z/OS without any other > "specialized" software on a "desktop"? I also like having said > documentation in a z/OS UNIX file because: (1) the file names can be more > descriptive due to being longer; (2) I'm used to searching for text using > "egrep" and regular expressions. Seems like a person will either "love" > (me) regexps or "passionately hate" them.
An ePUB document is just a zip archive containing HTML documents, supporting files like CSS, fonts, and images, and some metadata files. You can unzip it and then view the contents in a regular web browser, or even a text editor. “egrep” should work over the unzipped contents. -- Pew, Curtis G curtis....@austin.utexas.edu ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
