Re: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:58:41PM +0100, Federico Beffa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> 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
>