On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:00:57 -0600, Susan Shumway wrote: > >I want to make you aware that every PDF in the z/OS V2.3 library was just >refreshed to update the visual style and link coding. Because of the link >coding changes, clicking on a link in an old-style PDF to a new style PDF will >not work, and vice versa. So, to ensure that all cross-book links continue to >work for you, ensure that you download the entire fresh set of library PDFs >from >https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3Library as >soon as you get the chance. > Now I'm trying it. Seems pretty good.
It would be nice if the web metadata included file size so I could eagerly watch the progress bar during download. Is the "zOS_V2R3_Documentation.pdx" index gone? I sometimes found it useful. It would sure be nice if the cross-document references pointed to a chapter, not just to the title page of the referenced document. I suspect that's not easy to do. On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:52:20 +0000, Allan Staller wrote: >Ref: >https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3Library > >I observed one thing.hThe introductory "new style" screens are portrait >oriented and take up a lot of vertical real estate. >The new screens generate a lot of unnecessary scrolling. > >I have a laptop and a desktop, both with landscape oriented monitors. >The only portrait oriented device I have is a cell phone. > For that it would be nice if the doc were semantic-oriented html, adapting to screen geometry, not presentation-oriented. Not likely to happen. On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:06:52 -0600, Wendell Lovewell wrote: >Thanks for the update Sue. I'm not sure how we would find out this >information without your posting it here. > >1) Could you please use the full title names (minus "/" and ":" characters) >for the file names? The 8.3 file names (actually, they aren't all 8-character >anymore) are not very usable. > Use the index.html file. >I generally use Windows File Explorer to find a manual I've downloaded. But >to be able to find something by the file system name, I have to open each to >determine which manual it is, copy the title (and maybe the publication >number), close the pdf and then rename it. "asmr1023.pdf" is not meaningful. >"SC26-4940-08 HLASM Language Reference.pdf" is. And if the title has a slash, >colon, or other invalid character for a file name, I have to remove those. >(There might be reasons to replace the spaces with underscores.) It's often >easier to copy the pub # and title and use "Save As" so that I can use the >full title as a file name. Of course, this breaks any links between manuals. > Use symbolic links rather than renaming. >2) The second thing to please stop dividing the manuals into sections so that >the page numbers referenced from the TOC and all other places within the >manual are the actual PDF page numbers. PDF doesn't (generally) recognize >sections like this, so page numbers cited in the manual are always several >pages short of the PDF page number. (Hyperlinks from the TOC are great, but >references to page numbers within the text are usually not set up as links.) > I do not have this problem with my PDF viewer, ancient MacOS Preview. Does this problem occur when you just click on a ToC entry? On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:46:27 -0500, Gord Tomlin wrote: >On 2019-02-28 11:06, Wendell Lovewell wrote: >> (There might be reasons to replace the spaces with underscores.) > >Blanks in file names can be a hassle on Linux. > Hasn't bothered me that much. On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 09:53:57 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: > >black and white was appreciated. Even one tiny blue underline on a page >might make it 5 times the cost to print that page. > Can't you override to monochrome in your printer setup? On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:30:49 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >On 2/28/2019 2:39 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote: >> On 1/03/2019 4:10 am, Tom Brennan wrote: >>> Personally, I don't really like the index.html method IBM provides, so >> >> I do! I think it's one of the most usable ways to access the manuals IBM >> has provided in a long time. > >Sorry I wasn't very clear! I do like index.html a whole lot better than >my old method which was (like Wendell) renaming the pdf files to their >title. And of course I really appreciate being able to download the >whole collection all at once. > Old stuff. That's been available for a couple years. >Really, my only problem with index.html is that (at least in Chrome) the >pdf file is opened in the browser. > Firefox doesn't do that to me. I guess I'm just lucky. >... There are probably Chrome ways around that if I would just look. > That's configurable in Firefox, but sometimes I forget how. >Oh... one other nitpick - I always >tend to try to click the Title but I need to click the filename to the >left instead. But that's just me being overly picky. > Too many web page designers do that to you. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
