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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Lmuse-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmuse-developer
