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, Christian ----------------------------------------------------------- Holm Christensen Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Office: (+45) 353 25 305 DK-2200 Copenhagen N Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm Denmark Email: cholm@nbi.dk
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