Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:33:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
To: Stanley Gambarin <stanleyg@cs.bu.edu>
cc: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@engelschall.com>, apache-docs@apache.org
Subject: Re: List maintenance item
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Yes I think including windows help file format as one of our necessary
targets is a good thing.  I don't think ASCII is necessary at all.  I
would be happy with: HTML, Postscript, and .HLP.  PDF would be wonderful
too, but I've always been confused by the commercial/non-commercial
aspects of PDF ...

Dean

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Stanley Gambarin wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Here SDF would be nice, because it already provides ASCII, HTML, Postscript
> > _AND_ Windows Help File Format.
> > 
> 	Unless SGML provides some straightforward tools to convert to 
> Windows Help File Format (.hlp), I would go with SDF, as I would like to 
> once again emphasize the importance of the Win32 platforms, for which 
> docs are to be provided.  As for page layout, I am more concerned with
> the content than with what lagnuage is used, so if you give me a good 
> template, I will provide the content (regardless of SGML, SDF, HTML, etc).
> 
> +1 on good template and using SDF 
> 	(unless SGML provides easy way to generate hlp files, then
> 	+1 on good template and SGML).
> 							Stanley.
> 
> 
>