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From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 14:50:15 MET


Hi Roland, et al. 

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:39:54 +0100 Roland Bramm <bramm@stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Hi Rooters
> 
> An User Guide would be very nice !!
> 
> I think the BEST Format for everybody is pdf, because it is platform 
> independent, fast and can printet like ps and is small.

Yeah, fine, but how do you create pdf format files? There are a number
of ways, as you write:

> To Write the Stuff i would use the Framemaker or Indesign, because 
> there is no better typography Software than this . ( Frammaker is 
> nearly platform independent, it exists on Unix, Mac, Windos ) There 
> it is easy to maintain the things.

And what you forgot to mention, is LaTeX. LaTeX can produce the PDF
files - no sweat. Hence, you have a portable source in ASCII files,
much like ROOT it self, and the Portable paper in PDF (DVI, PDF, PS,
HTML, etc.).
 
> And you cold make a design wich looks not like an normal Latex source ...

I doesn't tkae much to moidify the output layout of LaTeX. Just take a
look at the CERNLIB docs. 
 
> Also i think, that manpages are a bad way because this is too 
> complex, 

but are very nice for quick refernces. Ofcourse a proper documentation
should accompany these man pages, wether it be on-line, printed, or
what ever. 
 
> an html source ( can easily produces with Frammaker and 
> Indesign) for an Online Help would be the best way.

He, LaTeX can be translated to HTML too: LaTeX2HTML. Againg refer to
the CERNLIB docs. 

> >-- at the same time LaTeX text might be prepared in WYSIWYG fashion with
> >    'lyx'.
> 
> Is that really your opinion, the Lyx Guys are saying that they 
> produce WYSIWYM (What you see is what you mean, and this is bad...) 
> If you want WYSIWYG than you cant use such things like Latex in all 
> fashions, a real DTP Software is the ONLY solution then.

Ehrr, you wrong. There is no such thing as WYSIWYG at all! Every
print engine, not to say printer, will things in a slightly different
way from what you actually see on your screen. Admittitly Framemaker
does a really good job, but so do LaTeX (IMHO much better). 

The conclussion: Use LaTeX! Any part of the docs will be portable,
high-quality, and custumaizable.
 
Cheers, 

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