Going to the sourceforge page you have, I see that you mean "HTML Help" as
in ".chm" files. That is something different that I am not familiar with.
All of our documentation is generated from sphinx, so whatever sphinx
supports, we can generate.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
> Technically speaking, we do support HTML Help, as that is the format of
> our online documentation. So, I think what you are really asking for is a
> packaged version of the HTML documentation that you find online that one
> can just simply download for themselves?
>
> As a quick solution for the moment, you can go to the following link:
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.github.com
> and click on the "Download .zip" button on the right side. That will get
> you the online documentation that should work off-line.
>
> Ben Root
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Gary Setter <garyset...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Monday, July 28, 2014 08:16 AM
>> Dear Sirs,
>> Please consider including Html Help as a third format for MatPlotLib
>> documentation. I was first introduced to MatPlotLib at an online class in
>> programming which used Python and MatPlotLib. I was impressed by MatPlotLib
>> but believed that the help system could be better for someone like me.
>>
>> At the time, only PDF was available, which has these problems:
>> - The index page is difficult to navigate
>> - You cannot move backwards and forwards as you follow hyperlinks
>> - Being page oriented, text that spans pages has a distracting page break
>> - In some places, text spills off the page and is not visible.
>>
>> You added Html support online, which is was a great improvement. However
>> it has a fatal flaw for someone like me:
>> - It is unavailable to people without an internet connection when then
>> they are working.
>>
>> Of the help documents that I used or written, (plain text, UNIX man
>> pages, LaTex, WinHelp and Html Help), Html Help is by far the best system.
>> Html help is:
>> - Self contained
>> - Available off line
>> - Easy to navigate
>> - Easy to use index
>> - Easy to use table of contents
>>
>> There is only one problem that I know of concerning using Html Help for
>> MatPlotLib documentation, support for it on UNIX systems. Rather than
>> rejecting Html Help, why not work on supporting it on UNIX systems?
>>
>> To see what I'm talking about, please take a look at the Html Help
>> version of MatPlotLib 1.3.0 which I converted from the PDF file. It is a
>> sourceforge project which you can access here:
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlibashtmlhelp/?source=directory
>>
>> What do you think? Is Html Help a format for offline documentation that
>> you are willing to support or at least accept? Please reply here or to
>> garyset...@yahoo.com.
>>
>> Gary Setter
>>
>>
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