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Re: Printable Copy Of The Cygwin Users Guide]


On Mon, 5 May 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 06:01:55PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > >
> > > > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Steve wrote:
> > > > > > Is there a place where I can email a suggestion for a primtable user's
> > > > > > guide?
> > > >
> > > > Well, after thinking about this a little more I have two thoughts.
> > > > First, the best place to check the User's Guide is the website. It
> > > > is updated more frequently. Second, though, I understand that not
> > > > everyone is online all the time--that's one reason I put together the
> > > > cygwin-doc package, even though it gets out of date. So, I think what
> > > > I'll do is put some sort of printable guide (assuming I can figure
> > > > out how to do it :) in the next iteration of cygwin-doc, which
> > > > may be a while. I will put a temporary one up somewhere hopefully
> > > > this weekend and email the list about it.
>
> Just to update the list about the possibility of a PDF version of the
> User's Guide, I got a working pdfjadetex going and did the conversion.
> Unfortunately it's not pretty. Feel free to email me off-list if you
> *really* want a look at it, but for the time being I think the best thing
> to do would be to print sections you want from the website.

Joshua,

In the meantime, should we post a monolithic HTML of the User's Guide on
the Cygwin website (possibly gzipped, like Sun does for Java Language
Spec: <http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/>)?
	Igor
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