By "spiral" I meant a plastic comb that can easily be opened to insert revisions, etc, at my neighborhood Staples office supply house. In fact, they don't even charge me for inserting new pages, so I usually reward them by buying something I need, such as paper. My HP 890C does (and is doing right now) a beautiful job creating such a manual! [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted a pdf version that is doing just what I want, as I type! Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 12:59 AM Subject: [REBOL] REBOL Manual Beta Draft Archive Re:(2) > Yes... but I don't think you'd want to spiral-bind it quite yet. Still much > more to add, and most of the examples need to be evaluated and their results > shown in the text. > > But to answer your question: yes. We use a REBOL script to format and build > the manual with all its links. We plan to add a number of features to it, > like an option to build a single HTML document file and a fully linked index. > > Right now, our focus is on content. That's the priority. > > -Carl > > > At 11/30/99 12:07 AM -0700, you wrote: > >Very nice, but what I want is a script like Bo L. wrote, called userguide.r, > >that collected the amendments into one html doc. I wish he or someone would > >make a similar script that followed the next trail of the draft user guide > >and created a single big html doc. Then I could print it with a single > >print command and set up my printer for two-sided page printing, making a > >compact manual. The archive is ok for looking up specific "things", but not > >as handy as a printed manual for "reading" and "learning". The "next" > >trail looks like a logical sequence. BTW, after printing the two sided page > >manual I get is spiral-bound. > > > >Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 8:21 PM > >Subject: [REBOL] REBOL Manual Beta Draft Archive > > > > > >> There is a self-extracting REBOL archive of the new draft manual. > >> To fetch it and decompress it into a local directory (called > >> manual) under your current directory, type: > >> > >> do http://www.rebol.com/manual/manual.r ; size: 300 KB > >> > >> Please note that this is a draft. Do not distribute or post, > >> as we will be updating it frequently... until it is complete. > >> > >> Send your comments on this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> -Carl > >> > > >
