Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Elliott Lee Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Net Yaroze Tutorial Preview Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:00:43 -0700 Organization: Bwahaha Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3606A25B.BD2D3C2E@shell.jps.net> References: <360587BD.5668FFB0@bigfoot.com> <36058dab.254467240@news.scea.sony.com> <36063833.4B669F2F@bigfoot.com> Reply-To: tenchi@shell.jps.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-m-62-237.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.freetalk:980 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:2426 Darco wrote: [...] > > I do notice that many writers prefer acrobat and .pdf format for doing > > these types of projects, are you sure you prefer .htm to .pdf? > > I'm choosing HTML because it's surfable. This goes back to the glossary > example... Were you see a word you don't understand, you click on it, > and it takes you to the definition. You can't do that with PDF. Plus, I > want this to be viewable on all platforms. PDF isn't quite omni-platform > yet, so... HTML is the way to go. Anyway, I don't have a way to make PDF > files at the moment. [...] > 'Darco I would prefer that it be in HTML not only for the "surfable" stuff that you mention but also because it's easily indexible and small in size. PDF is great when you actually care about your layout and want people to view it exactly as you composed the page. But, since what we want is text and text is very easily cut-and-paste-able, I think HTML would be the preferred format. Besides, HTML doesn't require a specific browser to view it like Acrobat. -- Mata ne, ... ... - e! ::' tenchi@shell.jps.net ':: (Protocol) :: ACiD -/- ACS -/- pHluid -/- Yaroze -/- Nemesis :: (Tenchikun) ::. http://www.jps.net/tenchi .:: ''' '''