The HTML docs can also be downloaded for offline use.
HTML documentation isn't easy to navigate on anything other than a
laptop / tablet. It also makes it confusing when there isn't an internet
connection because of the external links. Also it is hard (subjectively)
to read in order.
Also more subjective points:
- A PDF can be annotated
- A PDF can be bookmarked
- A PDF has a separate reading app / device from browsing
- A PDF can be printed out (yes sometimes this might still be useful)
Perhaps someone has access to analytics from
[numpy.org](http://numpy.org) that can tell us how often the PDF docs
are viewed?
It would be interesting to see the comparison between the downloads of
the offline HTML documentation and the PDF documentation.
I don't think it's worth the trouble of the separate rendering
pipeline for a relatively niche use-case.
We might end up going that way, but it would be a shame IMO. Though
splitting it out might be useful. Python documentation is packaged into
chapters which are self contained and reasonably readable. We should
strive for the same.
As we move increasingly towards different kinds of content
(blogs/notebooks/tutorials), I think we should try to keep all users in
mind and PDF generation is hardly on its way out in any language /
library.
--- Rohit
On 22 May 2022, at 23:28, Stephan Hoyer wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 3:52 PM Rohit Goswami <rgosw...@quansight.com>
wrote:
Being very hard to read should not be reason enough to stop
generating
them. In places with little to no internet connectivity often the PDF
documentation is invaluable.
The HTML docs can also be downloaded for offline use.
Perhaps someone has access to analytics from numpy.org that can tell
us how
often the PDF docs are viewed? I believe PDFs could be more convenient
for
some use-cases, but I don't think it's worth the trouble of the
separate
rendering pipeline for a relatively niche use-case.
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