Re: Documentation epub format

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Documentation epub format
Date: 2013-05-03 13:30:53
Message-ID: 20130503133053.GH5933@momjian.us
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On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 07:57:07AM +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
> >>This seems to suggest that instead of generating one large ebook, the
> >>build should generate a set of ebooks, say one for each part. At the
> >>minimum, a less detailed toc could be more usable and help navigate the
> >>huge contents.
> >
> >Once upon a time we had multiple books as documentation, then at
> >some point we merged them. It was quite a few years ago.
> >
> >I would agree at this point that we need to consider breaking them
> >up again. The documentation is unwieldy.
>
> PostgreSQL documentation in PDF seemed quite usable on the same
> ipad, so maybe there is no unique answer. I like the principle and
> simplicity of "one" document to move around, so sticking to that if
> possible seems better.

No question that PDF readers with collapsable index sections is a huge
win for our documentation. It isn't really the docs itself that control
that.

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