Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-09-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> so youngsters?? For a hardcore OpenSolaris user who uses "nothing but" and who has to constantly consult the userguides, not being able to read them is a major impediment. Freedom is not cherished until it's lost. Now I am free, again, not to use anything else! As someone else mentioned in

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-09-02 Thread john kroll
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Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-09-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I have cleaned up the original pdf file. Please see: http://tinyurl.com/zfs-pdf The invisible parts (original) are now visible (corrected). It is not too difficult a job. Just wish that we can be more thoughtful. The only people affected are us hard-core OpenSolaris users. -- This message pos

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-31 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Just realized that with all my innuendos and wild suggestions, I failed to comment on the quality of the documents themselves. This issue is particularly worth mentioning because (I don't know about you but) I am very impressed with the quality, especially readability, of Sun's new generation o

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-31 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> This is a freetype problem, and such problems can > impact anything. Nevada builds are anything but > "lightly tested" developer snapshots. They didn't > even introduce the problem - freetype folks did! Hi Akhilesh, Me again. I understand this can be blamed as a "freetype" problem, but it is

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-28 Thread Paul Gress
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> Hi Waynel >> >> Please don't get me wrong. I myself am responsible >> for driving openoffice adoption at my work place. I >> myself have gone from wordstar to word perfect (5.02) >> to word and then I used star office before openoffice >> existed. But because I have also wo

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Hi Waynel > > Please don't get me wrong. I myself am responsible > for driving openoffice adoption at my work place. I > myself have gone from wordstar to word perfect (5.02) > to word and then I used star office before openoffice > existed. But because I have also worked with > documentation t

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-27 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Hi Waynel Please don't get me wrong. I myself am responsible for driving openoffice adoption at my work place. I myself have gone from wordstar to word perfect (5.02) to word and then I used star office before openoffice existed. But because I have also worked with documentation team, I have s

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> And I don't like > it a bit; it is very good in generating "documents" > for documentation purposes but IMO it often causes > the authors to loose human touch. "loose" should be --lose--. The choice of the writing tool (in this case, the "Jive") strongly affects how one writes. I don't like J

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > I don't doubt the superiority of LaTex/Framemaker > in > > conjunction with Distiller in producing (the pdf > > versions of) nicely typeset books and brochures. > But > how good is a tool if it produces a product that > its > intended users can NOT read? This is what prompted > > > You s

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-27 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
> I don't doubt the superiority of LaTex/Framemaker in > conjunction with Distiller in producing (the pdf > versions of) nicely typeset books and brochures. But > how good is a tool if it produces a product that its > intended users can NOT read? This is what prompted > You seem to have missed

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-08-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Please read Akhilesh's answer carefully and stop > repeating > the same thing. Staroffice is to Latex/Framemaker > what a > mid-size sedan is to an 18-wheeler. To the untrained > eye, > they appear to perform similar actions, but the > actual overlap > is really small. > > > Sorry, can't help