drop html docs from the dmd distribution?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Feb 4 14:29:12 PST 2013


On 2/4/13 2:08 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:58:35 -0800
>> Walter Bright<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> drop html docs from the dmd distribution?
>>
>> PLEASE NO.
>>
>>> They seem rather pointless, considering:
>>>
>>> 1. them being on the web is better anyway
>>
>> Not when you don't have internet access or when you need docs an older
>> version.
>>
>>> 2. the new pdf version of the spec
>>
>> PDF is complete shit for on-screen browsing, or for anything other than
>> printing for that matter. HTML is good for on-screen browsing.
>
> +1
> PDF, ePUB, Kindle - all suffer from this problem.

I wonder whether a big, continuous HTML would be a good possibility.

Andrei


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