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

[kwi@xxxxx (Søren J. Løvborg)]

Mike wrote:
> For what it's worth, I personally think PDF is a pretty decent format for
> viewing this kind of material.  My own user experience with HTML
> documentation has been mostly bad; I've found HTML to be great for reference
> material, where there's a natural way to chop up content into small,
> relatively independent bits, but bad for more in-depth narrative material.
> The problem I've had with in-depth material in HTML is that you seem to get
> either very long pages, where scrollbar navigation becomes a huge pain, or
> you get material that's chopped into so many small pages that page
> navigation becomes a huge pain.

But it's the same with PDF: Just because the pages are visually divided, scrollbar navigation is still a pain.
With PDF, you also get slow responses to scrolling and extremely flickering when Acrobat Viewer needs to draw a part of a page.

> I blame the browser more than the format;
Well, I guess it's the same with PDF - with a proper viewer, it might work perfectly well.
(Know of any good PDF-viewer? I don't.)

> Even so, my plan is still to build the new Author's Manual in both HTML and
> PDF formats.
That's good to hear.

Søren J. Løvborg
kwi@it.dk