From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation. Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:47:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87r3hng7xs.fsf@gnu.org> 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=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIjN1-0007IA-G8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:47:20 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIjMw-0000Tv-0x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:47:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Federico Beffa's message of "Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:58:41 +0100") 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 Federico Beffa skribis: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wro= te: >> 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.) [...] > 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=E2=80=99.