Bill Downall wrote: >Some wild guessing, based on past publishing experience, is that -- >considering the number of copies, and the short shelf-life until the RBTI >Design Team comes up with the next great feature-laden new release -- >the cost per volume would be pretty high to produce printed manuals. So >the real is, would you pay an extra $75 or $100 for your R:Base bound >books, with no more content than you get in the html or chm files? > > >
Books are still the most efficient method of random access (although not for random search) but bound manuals are not practical when the text requires frequent updates. People tried loose-leaf etc in the past but I agree the best way is with a PDF file; I personally dislike HTML for help and, anyway, Acrobat has superior text search. PDF can be updated easily and one or more selected pages can be printed as required. FWIW Nicky ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
