From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RTF for emacs Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 08:40:11 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8761kus6no.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87fvk012fi.fsf@debian.uxu> <8761kw58n4.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87a9a79gvk.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401000326 15761 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2014 06:45:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 06:45:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 25 08:45:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WoSBM-0002GC-CG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 May 2014 08:45:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50517 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WoSBL-0001KZ-Rd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 May 2014 02:45:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: u+UUXbnu1hlDFr5pMibebQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:WHLpQ9cy3aK+eJZLvo7leegX9+o= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205574 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97844 Archived-At: Yuri Khan writes: > In my opinion, nohow. PDFs are for getting your > article printed, and that’s becoming more and more > irrelevant. I don't think so. Just think about the computer-book industry! A lot of thick manuals are lovely to print (and heft) and then have by the computer to look up things. Books (physical) are much more relaxing to read, and involves less eye-strain, and they work on a different mental plane - when at the keyboard, you (or I perhaps I should say) want to be the fighter pilot, active, overconfident, focusing on the problem, trying new things, attacking from different angles. With the book (perhaps on a train station) you are the helicopter pilot, modest and low-key, trying to grasp the whole scope of things - like 600 pages of C programming - you sure didn't think of that when you perfected a couple of nested for loops to nail an algorithm... Also, reading more general books (perhaps the autobiography of Wozniak, which I today learned is available as an audio book) - that stuff is great for culture, and very enjoyable. > Better publish online in HTML ... Well, LaTeX is much more expressive (beyond any comparison, really) and it looks the same everywhere. Other than that, interesting post. Get back to you on that home-crafted tool of yours. -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573