From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation. Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:06:15 -0500 Message-ID: <20160111190615.GA7019@jasmine> References: <87k2nnk73w.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb72a924.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn8t5kw8.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4bwzdlt.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIhnC-0004Li-S7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:06:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIhn9-0005rU-Kk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:06:14 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:44691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIhn9-0005rH-G6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:06:11 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:58:41PM +0100, Federico Beffa wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Federico Beffa skribis: > > > >> For PDFs, it depends on the type and quality of the manual. If it is > >> short and/or poor, then nobody will spend hours reading it. But if the > >> manual is good and long, then there is a chance that people will spend > >> a lot of time reading it and it would be nice to have a good quality > >> environment to read it (again, I'm talking about font graphics > >> rendering). > > > > I agree that rendering is much better in PDF. > > > >> This is analogous to making public buildings suitable for people with > >> wheel-chairs, ... may people don't care, until they are affected :-( > > > > I disagree with the analogy. On a computer, I find it simply less > > convenient to browse PDFs than to browse Info, and that outweighs the > > better rendering quality. (As it turns out, Info is also much more > > usable for people using a Braille reader.) > > > > When I want to read a complete manual, I prefer the paper version, > > though. > > It seems you don't get that my point is not about personal preferences > or feelings. It's about physical impairments (and there are plenty of > shades of grays between good sight and completely blind, where big, > good quality fonts matter). Agreed, I know two people with very severe visual impairments who find it more effective to magnify text to what seems an extreme degree than to use a Braille reader. > > I will install PDFs in a separate output. > > Regards, > Fede >