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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <19920831082441SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
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- Organization: Draper Laboratory
- References: <920827.210859.EDT.LENBOYLE@ccvm.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:24:00 GMT
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- In article <920827.210859.EDT.LENBOYLE@ccvm.sunysb.edu>,
- Leonard Boyle <LENBOYLE@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU> writes:
-
- >Because the bookie gml files are not available for most products, I
- >assume that Steve would like the format of the book files.
-
- Correct. I'd like to be able to view IBM's books. We have other ways
- of displaying our own documentation - and one's own doc can be built
- to suit one's environment, needless to say.
-
- >Maybe IBM could ship the source gml files for all books, release the
- >book formats, or generate tex DVI files.
-
- Having the source would be good; documenting the hairy structure of
- the formatted books would be better (and possibly make IBM's OCO
- contingent happier?). Generating TeX would not; PostScript might be.
-
- (We've already seen one publicly available software package offer
- its documentation in TeX format. After failing to print the stuff off
- (TeX isn't exactly a turnkey app), we lucked out with the next release
- from the author: the doc came in PostScript format.)
-
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- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
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