Re: the php manual....

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:16:27PM +0100, Hojtsy Gabor wrote: > > 1. What would it take to get the PDF versions into other languages > > besides english? > > I have asked this question some time ago. I guess the answer is > just time. I don't know about any technological problems > generating manuals in other languages... The answer is both, time and technological problems. I am not able to produce the German PDF because I have a German installation of TeX. This way the generation of the German PDF manual makes with a "echo "ach ..." a "echo äch ...". Examples are with this way not readable. If I need a recent PDF manual, I email Jouni and he send me one. There are more limitations in the TeX backend, which needs some patches to TeX itself. > > 2. Why isn't the PDF version being served on a page-by-page basis, as > > well as one big file? It sure would be nice to only put together > > a printed manual of the pages you want (i.e, If you're only using > > MySQL, it would save a lot of paper if you didn't print the Oracle, > > Postgres, Ovrimos, etc. sections.) > > Well you can use a printer program, where you can set what pages to > print... And for downloading it is not too much... Or go to Amazon.com and buy a PHP manual in two parts. -Egon -- http://www.linuxtag.de/ http://php.net/books.php http://www.concert-band.de/ http://www.php-buch.de/