Re: New CHM manual opinions - please NOT!
| From: | Lars Torben Wilson | Date: | Sun, 16 Dec 2001 20:14:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: New CHM manual opinions - please NOT! | ||
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Sander Roobol writes:
> > From http://weblabor.hu/php/newchm.php:
> > "Note, that this is not the official version, and there can be many errors
> and bugs to fix.
> > The actual officical CHM manual can be found at
> http://www.php.net/download-docs.php.
> > This does not mean, that this is a separate project. This will be the
> official version in the future, as it gets useable. "
> >
> > I'm quite alarmed at reading this.
> > I hope that you will continue to provide the HTML version of the manual!
> > Having a CHM version only would be a loss.
>
> The new CHM-manual will never replace the plain HTML-manual! It only might
> replace the current CHM manual. The HTML-manuals are way too valuable for
> non-Windows users.
> There's no need to worry about that.
>
> Sander
Besides, remember that all manual formats are generated from the same
XML source. Updating one format's appearance (CHM) has no impact on
any of the others, since you don't change the source, just the the
source-to-output convertor.
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