The main problem is a way to "mark up" the BM or PDF versions so that you can share the marked up text. Depending on the software used, bookmarking may also be an issue. The Kindle reader can display PDF and you can also do bookmarking and mark up. But it is difficult to share those. Okular on Linux can also do bookmarking and marking on PDF files, but again they can't easily be shared. Well, perhaps if the PDF is on a shared, writable, disk (NFS or CIFS or sshfs even).
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on 02/02/2013 > at 10:54 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> said: > >>I hate PDF's and BKS ... Especially when I am not sure exactly >>what I am looking for. With a real manual I can put a finger in >>the current location and go wondering about the manual and if >>needed I just go back to where my finger is. > > With proper formatting and proper viewing software there's no reason > that you couldn't do everything with BM and PDF that you do with dead > trees. It would be more productive to convince IBM to improve the > tools rather than to push for restoring paper copies. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
