[matplotlib-devel] Please consider Html Help
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 -- Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
[matplotlib-devel] Please Build the doc as HtmlHelp
Thank you for all the responds concerning Html Help. If someone would build using class sphinx.builders.htmlhelp.HTMLHelpBuilder and upload the outputs were I can get them, I have a HTML Help workshop installed on my desktop. I would gladly setup the project and build the dot chm file. I'll send the results were ever you wish. Best regards, Gary Setter -- Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
[matplotlib-devel] Thanks for the HtmlHelp file
Thank you for the HtmlHelp version of MatPlotLib help. Todays build from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#matplotlib does not have a problem with blocked content. It does have missing images in User's Guide \ Beginner's Guide \ Working with Text \ Symbols. I may be able to fix that up and rebuild it. Thank you all Gary Setter-- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
[matplotlib-devel] Missing images for mathtext.html
Hi, If this is an inappropriate place to make this comment please tell me. I found that the images were missing from the mathtext.html page. The source of the problem was the elements, the src attributes. On this page and only this page both forward and backward slashes are used. If you change the slashes to forward slashes, the html help compiler can find the images. Gary Setter-- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
[matplotlib-devel] Suggestions for the MatPlotLib documentation
I uploaded a version of the documentation to MatplotlibAsHtmlHelp I made some changes and tried to explain why on the projects Wiki. Again thank you for all the help.. Gary MatplotlibAsHtmlHelp MatPlotLib documentation as Html Help View on sourceforge.net Preview by Yahoo -- Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
