Bug#361431: please consider PDF or HTML version of the docs

2008-01-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-04-08 18:13:55 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: The current doc is formatted to DVI, which is not a very friendly format. Eg, using pdftex or tex4ht, we could get hyperlinked versions of the docs, which would be much more useful. make docpdf can be used. See:

Bug#361431: please consider PDF or HTML version of the docs

2008-01-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:51:36AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2006-04-08 18:13:55 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: The current doc is formatted to DVI, which is not a very friendly format. Eg, using pdftex or tex4ht, we could get hyperlinked versions of the docs, which would be much more

Bug#361431: please consider PDF or HTML version of the docs

2008-01-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-19 12:18:12 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: the issue is that make docpdf does not generated any kind of hyperlink, and DVI is much faster to display than PDF, so I am not usure it is a gain. The Debian package could provide both, so that the user can choose. Moreover, the user may not

Bug#361431: please consider PDF or HTML version of the docs

2008-01-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 06:02:29PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-01-19 12:18:12 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: the issue is that make docpdf does not generated any kind of hyperlink, and DVI is much faster to display than PDF, so I am not usure it is a gain. The Debian package

Bug#361431: please consider PDF or HTML version of the docs

2006-04-08 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: pari-doc Version: 2.1.7-2 Severity: wishlist The current doc is formatted to DVI, which is not a very friendly format. Eg, using pdftex or tex4ht, we could get hyperlinked versions of the docs, which would be much more useful. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable