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Re: Introduction
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: Introduction |
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Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:45:32 -0800 |
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John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> Having said that, I'm not convinced that Texinfo is the most suitable
> format for documentation which contains lots of graphics, which of
> course would be rather essential for a manual for PSPPIRE, especially
> for the online help documents. I think some kind of docbook format
> might be better, but I'm not very experienced there.
Texinfo does OK with graphics, if you just want to include them
between paragraphs of text. Where it becomes a poor choice is
when you want to have them alongside text or in figures separate
from the text; it doesn't support that kind of thing at all. I
guess that the PSPPIRE documentation will be this kind of
document, where Texinfo is not a good choice.
I think DocBook might be a good choice for PSPPIRE documentation.
The GNOME documentation appears to be DocBook-based, so we'd be
in good company.
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Ben Pfaff
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