On February 21, 2013 04:16:06 PM Tim E. Real wrote:
> On February 21, 2013 09:25:34 PM Florian Jung wrote:
> > Am 21.02.2013 17:22, schrieb Dennis Schulmeister:
> > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:57:40 -0500
> > > 
> > > "Tim E. Real" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Should we pick PDF or HTML only and stick with it?
> > >> Because if we allow the user to choose both or either, that
> > >> 
> > >>  complicates what should happen when the user hits F1 for help.
> > > 
> > > Like I said back then. Tex really is no html factory. html may work
> > > okay but many things will only work for pdf. Tex is a markup macro
> > > language for printed documents. It's not meant to be transformed to
> > > another markup language with totaly different features and design ...
> > 
> > yes. Just to repeat myself: primary goal should be to create a good pdf
> > handbook, which is printable and looks nice on-screen.
> > 
> > generating HTML from it would be nice, but definitely not the goal, and
> > it will definitely not work optimally.
> 
> Agreed. PDF foremost for looks but....
> 
> Question though, if we create some context-sensitive help system,
>  can a PDF viewer be told to open at an exact spot or reference in the file?
> 
> okular --help
> -p, --page <number>       Page of the document to be shown
> 
> Hmm... Not optimal but workable I suppose.

Hey wait, if we instead use a library to open the PDF we could hopefully 
 do anything we want in our context-sensitive system, right?

Tim.

> 
> Tim.
> 
> > greetings
> > flo
> > 
> > > Dennis
> 


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