Am 27.06.97 schrieb jgoerzen # complete.org ... Moin John!
JG> better. And, keep in mind that TeX and SGML/LinuxDoc can be JG> converted to HTML on-the-fly if somebody writes a simple CGI JG> program. That's not true. You can't convert TeX or SGML on-the-fly, because the converters produce a lot of errors. And latex2html produces very high load on the machine. JG> * HTML cannot be easily printed. Things get split about into many JG> files, there is no printed index, page numbers, etc. That's right, but we are talking about an online help system, aren't we? JG> * HTML is not easily searchable at this time. At best, you can JG> search the current page. Otherwise, you have to allocate lots of JG> disk space to some sort of index. Please test my dhelp at http://www.tu-harburg.de/~rzthmb JG> work to do. So Lynx was removed. Other cases where this has You can install a restricted version of lynx (option anonymous). JG> * DVI format. It can be converted to HTML (I think...) and plain JG> text on-the-fly. It can also be converted to PostScript and No, there's no dvi2html convert. And such converter is nearly impossible to write because the DVI format doesn't contain information about the document structure. JG> I believe that there are also LinuxDoc to Info converters as JG> well as LinuxDoc to Manpage converters, but I could be mistaken. That's right. cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/5202.15 Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
