Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:03:08 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Message-ID: <3989A5CC.F30BABF8@acuson.com> References: <XFMail.000803131901.u98jobj@stud.hh.se> <04db01bffd50$0865bf00$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Doug Young wrote: > Now thats another issue again ..... does <PRE> stuff look OK in Lynx ?? > I dunno if Lynx is that relevant to manuals with heaps of pics though .... > unless the existing stuff can be readily converted to some sort of text. > I won't be writing ANY docs that don't have heaps of screen shots, so > if that results in something unusable to Lynx users then so be it . > Probably any Lynx user would be beyond using the extremely simplistic > newbie level stuff I do anyway. I think at least part of the point of using <PRE> was to replace some screenshots. For a text-only screenshot, <PRE> gives you a nearly identical reproduction for only 1/100 the size (fiddle with CSS and fonts and you can have a 100% pixel-for-pixel reproduction). And it's easier to read. And easier to print out. You DO want it to be printed out since during the installation the webpage will be unavailable. Perhaps have two versions, one with screenshots and one with <PRE>. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3989A5CC.F30BABF8>