[tex-live] scheme modern

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Jan 6 21:55:33 CET 2011


On 6 January 2011 Philipp Stephani wrote:

 > > 1.2G    /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/doc
 > 
 > Useful, has to stay. Lots of documentation is good, but I wonder
 > whether in the future we should write HTML manuals instead of PDF,
 > which would be more user-friendly (no fixed layout, better
 > hypertext capabilities, JavaScript) and require less space.

This will not happen.  Documentation is about software which produces
PDF in the first place, so we need documentation in PDF.  But if you
want to prove me wrong, convert the microtype manual to HTML.
I'm looking forward...  :)

Regards,
  Reinhard

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhard Kotucha                                      Phone: +49-511-3373112
Marschnerstr. 25
D-30167 Hannover                              mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------


More information about the tex-live mailing list