On 09/05/2009 11:10 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote:
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:51 PM, rgheck<rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
Sure, why not. Maybe in a submenu. Otherwise why do you have them?
That would be the worry about clutter.
Thanks :) I understand the worry, I just don't share it in this instance.
Surely you can live with 4 additional entries in the Export menu.
But that is precisely the point: We're not talking about four extra
entries. We're not going to do something special for HTML here, as much
as you would apparently like us to do so. This is a matter of principle,
and I can't for the life of me seeing us abandoning it, and in any event
Jurgen is strongly committed to this, and he's release manager. So if we
are going to list everything, then we are going to list everything, and
then there will be a LOT more entries. (We check for as many programs as
we know about for every format we know about, and we'll check for more
if someone tells us about a new one.) That makes for a badly cluttered
menu, one where you can't find what you need, let alone what you want.
It's already too cluttered with duplicate mechanisms for single output
formats.
Do regular users have 4 HTML converters installed
As Jurgen said, TeXLive installs most of them, and who knows what distro
X installs?
and if so, is it going to bother them to find each of them in the menu? Or will
they
appreciate it? Hint: some of them are asking for all of them to appear in the
menu.
Perhaps some are. Perhaps most people don't give a fly what converter is
used, as long as it gets the job done, and they'll be confused by having
five options for HTML output (as people are often confused by having
three options for PDF output). What's more, the people who are dying to
see all five options can put them there, as I have said before. So
what's the big deal?
Richard
