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What would be the desired format for MegaPov documentation for Windows and
Unix?
Available formats to choose from:
WordPerfect
MS Word 97
MS Word (simple, read by WordPad)
PostScript
PDF (only if I can generate it with free tools)
HTML (export from MS Word)
Some other format that I could easily generate from a MS Word file using
free tools.
(Sorry, but I don't have any tools to generate HLP files for Windows.)
-Nathan
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Nathan Kopp wrote:
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>What would be the desired format for MegaPov documentation for Windows
>and Unix?
>
>Available formats to choose from:
>
>WordPerfect
>MS Word 97
Non of the above.
>MS Word (simple, read by WordPad)
Maybe.
>PostScript
>PDF (only if I can generate it with free tools)
None of the above for on screen display, maybe ok for printing.
>HTML (export from MS Word)
Ok for on screen, bad for printing.
>Some other format that I could easily generate from a MS Word file using
>free tools.
RTF, most wordprocessors (unix?) know it, good for printing and easy
converted to html.
Ingo
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Nathan Kopp wrote:
.txt is fine by me. With .txt I can open it directly in the POV-Ray for
windows scene editor and switch between my working scene window and
the document window when I need clarification on something rather than
having to spawn a seperate application to see it.
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>What would be the desired format for MegaPov documentation for Windows and
>Unix?
I'm pretty attached to HTML, preferably with CSS, layers, frames, and the
whole shabang... My second choice would be PDF.
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Barring .hlp from the picture only leaves me with
.html as a format of choice. If the docs were set up
as a web site (not on the net but on your own machine)
finding the data could be much easier than searching a whole
text file.
Nathan Kopp wrote:
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> What would be the desired format for MegaPov documentation for Windows and
> Unix?
>
> Available formats to choose from:
>
> WordPerfect
> MS Word 97
> MS Word (simple, read by WordPad)
> PostScript
> PDF (only if I can generate it with free tools)
> HTML (export from MS Word)
> Some other format that I could easily generate from a MS Word file using
> free tools.
>
> (Sorry, but I don't have any tools to generate HLP files for Windows.)
>
> -Nathan
--
Mr. Art
"Often the appearance of reality is more important
than the reality of the appearance."
Bill DeWitt 2000
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Nathan Kopp wrote:
> What would be the desired format for MegaPov documentation for Windows and
> Unix?
>
> Available formats to choose from:
>
> WordPerfect
Probably not supported enough.
> MS Word 97
Eww. Help. Please no.
> MS Word (simple, read by WordPad)
Also not too good.
> PostScript
Nice for printing, but probably not for a on-computer reference.
> PDF (only if I can generate it with free tools)
A bit better than PS, but maybe so-so. Much preferred over any MS Word format
though.
> HTML (export from MS Word)
No no no nonononononononononononooooooooooooooooooooo. Please no. Its output
is so horrible and broken that it's only due to the sloppy implementation of
HTML in MSIE that Word's output just accendentally happens to work. Please
something else.
> Some other format that I could easily generate from a MS Word file using
> free tools.
I'd suggest exporting to RTF (as most word processors on most platforms
handle that and in a fairly good manner). Then you might have it run through
some tools to make nice HTML.
If you had anyway to get to XML, that would be great. From good XML it's
quite easy to get it converted to just about anything needed, and to build
needed indexies, etc.
> (Sorry, but I don't have any tools to generate HLP files for Windows.)
>
> -Nathan
Hmmm. If you sign up for the free MSDN membership, you might get free access
to their help compiler. It's worth looking into.
And, yes, I'd be more than willing to give some time, if it would mean saving
you from having to put out MS Word's HTML. :-)
--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.
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>(Sorry, but I don't have any tools to generate HLP files for Windows.)
Almost forgot.
Check out: http://www.kos.org/software/hlpy.htm
And, for a more updated version:
http://www.xteq.com/products/hlpy/index.html
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Nathan Kopp wrote in message <388b6675@news.povray.org>...
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>What would be the desired format for MegaPov documentation for Windows and
>Unix?
>
>Available formats to choose from:
>
Text or html would be prefered here.
Gail
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Nathan Kopp <Nat### [at] koppcom> wrote:
: WordPerfect
: MS Word 97
: MS Word (simple, read by WordPad)
In unix?
Well, I could read them using StarOffice, but it would be a pain to start
it every time I want to read a quick help.
: PostScript
Nope. Too hard to navigate.
: PDF (only if I can generate it with free tools)
Only if PFD supports links to other parts of the document.
: HTML (export from MS Word)
Perhaps the best choice (if it has proper links). But I think that the
Word's HTML export is not the best possible.
Some people suggest the RTF format.
How do I open such a file in unix? Does it support links?
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I suggest you don't use platform dependant formats, such as Word.
Postscript is good for printing, but the files are rather large to d/l.
My favorite would be html.
sig.
Nathan Kopp wrote:
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> What would be the desired format for MegaPov documentation for Windows and
> Unix?
>
> Available formats to choose from:
>
> WordPerfect
> MS Word 97
> MS Word (simple, read by WordPad)
> PostScript
> PDF (only if I can generate it with free tools)
> HTML (export from MS Word)
> Some other format that I could easily generate from a MS Word file using
> free tools.
>
> (Sorry, but I don't have any tools to generate HLP files for Windows.)
>
> -Nathan
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