Re: [Tads3] Eric Eve's Getting Started guide

["Eric Eve" <eric.eve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Søren J. Løvborg wrote [about my Getting Started guide]:

> Hey, it _is_ nice.
> Good work, Eric!

> It seems to cover most, if not all, of the library classes that an author
will
> need to know.

Thanks - glad you liked it (though I'm aware of quite a lot of things it
didn't cover).

> So, besides a typo or two (the p. 7 footnote, and 'dObjFor' on p. 31, 42),

Thanks for pointing these out; I'm relying on this sort of feedback to pick
up typos like this (though I could't find a 'dObjFor' on p. 31, I've now
picked it up, and an 'iObjFor' in a couple of other places.).

> my only complaint would be the format.
> Can't you make an HTML version, nicely split up into chapters, or
something?

> PDF is excellent for printing, but for reading on-screen, it sucks. :)

Well, I don't find PDF that awful for reading on-screen, but perhaps that's
just me. The trouble is that I've written the Guide in MS Word and I don't
know any relatively quick way of getting decent HTML files out of Word. Of
course one can do a quick and dirty 'save as html', which is what I've just
tried (you can view the result at

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~manc0049/files/GettingStartedInTADS3.htm

if that's easier on your eye than the PDF version), but you'll see what I
mean by the 'dirty' in 'quick and dirty'.

What I'm a bit reluctant to do, as you can imagine, is to end up having to
maintain two versions of the Guide (and I'm sure in time there'll need to be
a revised version), the original MS Word version and a HTML version. I may
experiment to see if I've got anything that'll do the job a bit better - or
do you have any suggestions?

-- Eric