From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:47:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3hng7xs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrPhPPdA6=S9SMLGJcXM9_sirCsTNyw-_AxWQVv49kbZvttAw@mail.gmail.com> (Federico Beffa's message of "Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:58:41 +0100")
Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:
> 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.)
[...]
> 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).
My point about Braille reader is very clearly about physical
impairment. I think I do get your point.
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-30 17:33 [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation Federico Beffa
2016-01-05 22:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-09 10:28 ` Federico Beffa
2016-01-09 18:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-09 22:32 ` Federico Beffa
2016-01-10 18:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-10 21:19 ` Federico Beffa
2016-01-10 23:14 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-01-11 8:20 ` Federico Beffa
2016-01-11 9:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-11 11:58 ` Federico Beffa
2016-01-11 19:06 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-12 7:46 ` Federico Beffa
2016-01-11 20:47 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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