> Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> It should be standard docs imo. PDF is a heck of a lot easier to read if
>>> you have a good PDF reader.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, what would that be? I've used both Acrobat and
>> Preview, and I do not like either.
Have yo
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
"Matthew T. O'Connor" writes:
Lots of projects publish their HTML docs in two formats: One Big HTML
file with everything; Broken up into many HTML files that link to each
other. This would allow you you have one big searchable document.
The key word ther
Tom Lane wrote:
> "Matthew T. O'Connor" writes:
> > Lots of projects publish their HTML docs in two formats: One Big HTML
> > file with everything; Broken up into many HTML files that link to each
> > other. This would allow you you have one big searchable document.
>
> The key word there bein
"Matthew T. O'Connor" writes:
> Lots of projects publish their HTML docs in two formats: One Big HTML
> file with everything; Broken up into many HTML files that link to each
> other. This would allow you you have one big searchable document.
The key word there being "big" ;-) ... I don't have
Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > The big thing for me, is a single document, zero clicks, that is
> > searchable. PDF and plain text are the only thing that give me that. If
> > you are really zealous you can even use Beagle (which I don't) to
> > preindex the PDF for you for
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
The big thing for me, is a single document, zero clicks, that is
searchable. PDF and plain text are the only thing that give me that. If
you are really zealous you can even use Beagle (which I don't) to
preindex the PDF for you for easy searching.
Lots of projects publish
Hugh Sasse wrote:
> I wrote :
>>> Ah, so the HTML is the source,
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> No, docbook is the source of which you apply DSSSL to to generate PS,
>> PDF, HTML, XML, Latex etc..
>
> OK, well I need to become familiar with docbook for other projects, so
>
>
I wrote :
> >
> > Ah, so the HTML is the source,
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> No, docbook is the source of which you apply DSSSL to to generate PS,
> PDF, HTML, XML, Latex etc..
OK, well I need to become familiar with docbook for other projects, so
I may be able to con
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > I'd like to improve it for me and others
> > in my position without making it typographically hideous for fully sighted
> > people :-).
> There is no reason we cannot produce several versions of the docs. It doesn't
> have to be o
> The samples are on A5 rather than A4. I wonder if the PostgreSQL docs
> were output to A$ whether that might help me, because I'd be able to
> double the size before lines flowed off the screen? Thanks for this
> info about Gentium -- I rather like it.
>>> I suppose the question to ask now i
Hugh Sasse wrote:
I'd like to improve it for me and others
in my position without making it typographically hideous for fully sighted
people :-).
There is no reason we cannot produce several versions of the docs. It
doesn't have to be one size fits all.
cheers
andrew
--
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> > > Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > >
> > > > It's a variable function of my vision, lighting, but I usually use 24
> > > > point
> > > > on VDUs, In this terminal (because Lucida Console
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> It should be standard docs imo. PDF is a heck of a lot easier to read if
> >> you have a good PDF reader.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, what would that be? I've used both Acrobat
Hugh Sasse wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > Hugh Sasse wrote:
> >
> > > It's a variable function of my vision, lighting, but I usually use 24
> > > point
> > > on VDUs, In this terminal (because Lucida Console doesn't have thin
> > > strokes,
> > > the n's are about 5
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote:
>
> > It's a variable function of my vision, lighting, but I usually use 24 point
> > on VDUs, In this terminal (because Lucida Console doesn't have thin strokes,
> > the n's are about 5 mm high, but I'd like them bigger if possible.
Hugh Sasse wrote:
> It's a variable function of my vision, lighting, but I usually use 24 point
> on VDUs, In this terminal (because Lucida Console doesn't have thin strokes,
> the n's are about 5 mm high, but I'd like them bigger if possible. I'm
> not the limiting case, a former colleague liked
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 23. M?rz 2007 15:15 schrieb Hugh Sasse:
> > The PDFs are of high quality in terms of effort and content, but I
> > can't get the text large enough to see
You trimmed that -- it is large enough if I can put up with non-smooth
scrolling. I
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 23. März 2007 15:15 schrieb Hugh Sasse:
>> The PDFs are of high quality in terms of effort and content, but I
>> can't get the text large enough to see
>
> How large would you need it to be? I can zoom both the PDF and the HTML so
> that an "n" is 5mm high.
Am Freitag, 23. März 2007 15:15 schrieb Hugh Sasse:
> The PDFs are of high quality in terms of effort and content, but I
> can't get the text large enough to see
How large would you need it to be? I can zoom both the PDF and the HTML so
that an "n" is 5mm high.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://devel
Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It should be standard docs imo. PDF is a heck of a lot easier to read if
>> you have a good PDF reader.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what would that be? I've used both Acrobat and
> Preview, and I do not like either.
I use Evince p
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It should be standard docs imo. PDF is a heck of a lot easier to read if
> you have a good PDF reader.
Just out of curiosity, what would that be? I've used both Acrobat and
Preview, and I do not like either.
(As to the original point, I'm all for f
> me too
>
> I do think though that there is a good case for producing PDFs for sight
> impaired people, on pgfoundry if not as part of our standard docs
> production.
It should be standard docs imo. PDF is a heck of a lot easier to read if
you have a good PDF reader. Not to mention print.
Jos
Tom Lane wrote:
Hugh Sasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
... I have found the Web versions, but don't know
how much (if anything) is lost in making the documents fit HTML.
Nothing --- the HTML version is what I invariably consult. So if you
have decent reader tools for HTML, by all mean
Hugh Sasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... I have found the Web versions, but don't know
> how much (if anything) is lost in making the documents fit HTML.
Nothing --- the HTML version is what I invariably consult. So if you
have decent reader tools for HTML, by all means go with that.
Hugh Sasse wrote:
> If this is too difficult, I have found the Web versions, but don't know
> how much (if anything) is lost in making the documents fit HTML.
I suggest you read the HTML pages. The information is the same. In
fact, I think the question is "how much is lost in making the documen
I'm new to PostgreSQL, having done a little work with MySQL in the
past. Part of the reason for changing to PostgreSQL is some of the
differences but to understand them I need docs of course. Now there
are plenty of books, but I can't find any to examine in local
bookshops (pretty poor for a town
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