Re: Vim manual

2012-04-13 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/04/2012 06:56, Paul Isambert wrote: On 12/04/2012 06:17, Paul Isambert wrote: Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com a écrit: On 10/04/2012 22:01, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-10 18:37 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Putting the documents

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/2012 06:17, Paul Isambert wrote: Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com a écrit: On 10/04/2012 22:01, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-10 18:37 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Putting the documents (manual reference) into tex I think is the

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Isambert
Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com a écrit: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/2012 06:17, Paul Isambert wrote: Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com a écrit: On 10/04/2012 22:01, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-10 18:37 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Putting the

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-11 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2012-04-10 16:54 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 16:30, Andre Majorel aym-...@teaser.fr wrote:  http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/vimpspp/ is that what was used to create this: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/ No. Those are typeset in Courier. -- André Majorel

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-11 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/2012 22:01, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-10 18:37 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Putting the documents (manual reference) into tex I think is the best way to go will result in a much better looking final PDF from which to print.

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Isambert
Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com a écrit: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/2012 22:01, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-10 18:37 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Putting the documents (manual reference) into tex I think is the best way to go will result in a much

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-10 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2012-04-05 22:32 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: There doesn't seem to have been much of a positive response however to the idea in general so taking that into account if the vim list is ambivalent towards it, I'm not so sure it'll pan out with anyone else. It wouldn't take an Everest type

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/2012 16:59, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-05 22:32 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: There doesn't seem to have been much of a positive response however to the idea in general so taking that into account if the vim list is ambivalent towards

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-10 Thread shawn wilson
I think beautifying vimdoc would be a good thing (though I don't really dig the dead tree version). I think maybe even expanding it so that it's more book like (maybe with examples from the list / web) might even be a good thing. I think a starting point would be to decide on a document format

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/2012 18:12, shawn wilson wrote: I think beautifying vimdoc would be a good thing (though I don't really dig the dead tree version). I think maybe even expanding it so that it's more book like (maybe with examples from the list / web)

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-10 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2012-04-10 17:36 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: I'm still very keen on the idea however so if you want maybe we can pool resources (along with anybody else of course)? Sure. Here's what I have : http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/vimpspp/ -- André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 16:30, Andre Majorel aym-...@teaser.fr wrote: Sure. Here's what I have :  http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/vimpspp/ is that what was used to create this: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/ -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-10 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2012-04-10 18:37 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Putting the documents (manual reference) into tex I think is the best way to go will result in a much better looking final PDF from which to print. What do you have in mind ? If you just put all the text in a giant monospace verbatim, it won't

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-05 Thread Sujith Abraham
In this respect Emacs wins. They have a much more beautifully rendered PDF manual. In comparison, vim manual in PDF look amateurish. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.pdf -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-05 Thread Boyko Bantchev
On 5 April 2012 22:17, Sujith Abraham milkyway8...@gmail.com wrote: In this respect Emacs wins. They have a much more beautifully rendered PDF manual. In comparison, vim manual in PDF look amateurish. The Emacs manual is written as a book and typeset with TeX (TexInfo). Vim manual is just an

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-02 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Phil Dobbin wrote: I downloaded a jolly good pdf of the Vim :help manual: http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/usr_doc/index.html the other day the thought struck me that, to my knowledge, no hardcopy of same is in existence. Has this idea ever been mooted? In my opinion, it would be