From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation epub format
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 16:00:12 +1200
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On 03/05/13 15:16, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 18:27 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>> The table of contents too much detailed, so it is long and slow to
>> scan, and there is no clear shortcut. Flipping pages in the
>> documentation takes ages (well, close to one second or more if I flip
>> a few pages). Do not try "search".
> EPUB is essentially a zip file with per-section simplified HTML files.
> So any device that can render simple web pages should be able to handle
> that with ease. What I think iBooks is doing is it internally
> pre-renders all the pages in order to be able to attach page numbers to
> all the table of contents entries. I suspect other readers that don't
> do that will be able to handle this better.
>
> That said, I think trimming down the table of contents nesting depth
> might be worth checking into for this output format.
>
I don't think that you don't need to trim down the nesting depth in pdf,
as the table of contents can be displayed in a tree structure, and you
only need to expand branches as far you need. I would have assumed ePub
would have the same facility, or am I mistaken?
Cheers,
Gavin
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