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

[kwi@xxxxx (Søren J. Løvborg)]

> 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'.

Hm. Actually, this already seems much better, except for the code fragments.
Smooth scrolling, no space wasted for the physical page-margins, and the reader can control font-sizes and colours.

> What I'm a bit reluctant to do, as you can imagine, is to end up having to
> maintain two versions of the Guide
Oh, I can understand that perfectly well.

> I may experiment to see if I've got anything that'll do the job
> a bit better - or do you have any suggestions?
Not really.
If I knew of any really good solution to produce formatted text nicely for both printing and reading on-screen, I'd be a rich man. :)

One approach could be to use HTML for the "master" copy and then make a PDF from that (using a virtual PDF-printer driver, or something) - but I'm not sure if that'd work any better.

Søren J. Løvborg
kwi@it.dk