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Re: Printable Copy Of The Cygwin Users Guide]
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 12:03:09AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 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 cygwin-doc package, even though it gets out of date.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/>)?
Well, it's not quite like that, but there is now something new at
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/> that I think everyone will like.
I got rid of some of the embarrassing outdated revision information and also
the author's names. I was going to alphabetize them and add my own name, but
then I thought maybe DJ doesn't like getting emails that start, "I see that
you're an expert on Cygwin..." so I just removed them all. I can put them
back if that's best. And, there is now a decent PDF.
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