On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Pew, Curtis G <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2016, at 7:33 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> > 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. > I didn't know that! Thanks very much. > > -- > Pew, Curtis G > [email protected] > ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services > > -- "Pessimism is a admirable quality in an engineer. Pessimistic people check their work three times, because they're sure that something won't be right. Optimistic people check once, trust in Solis-de to keep the ship safe, then blow everyone up." "I think you're mistaking the word optimistic for inept." "They've got a similar ring to my ear." >From "Star Nomad" by Lindsay Buroker: Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
