From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:33:37 -0400
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tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) writes:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> On lör, 2010-06-12 at 11:18 +0200, John Gage wrote:
>>> A one file html version would be a godsend.
>
>> I've committed a build target for that now.  Use 'make postgres.html' in
>> doc/src/sgml/.
>
> Huh, is that actually worth anything?  How many browsers will open it
> without crashing, or will navigate the page with decent performance
> if they do manage to open it?
>
> (Not that I object to providing this Make target.  But I thought the
> discussion was about plain-text output.)

I expect that having one HTML file would make it reasonably easy to
use lynx/links/w3m [some text-based HTML browser] to transform HTML
into plain text.

I should think that it would also enable using analagous tools to
transform HTML into eBook formats like ePub and mobi, which are the
frequently-preferable-formats on the emerging category of "electronic
book" appliances.

I have browsed the CHM form of the docs using a CHM reader on my
phone, and found that less than wonderful, which had a lot to do with
the reader not being particularly great.  A format that plays well
with a decent reader may turn out pretty happily.
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