DESIGN: New CTP2 Game Manual

[Gilgamensch]

Locutus, sorry to correct you, but even in PDF, you can include hyperlinks to webpages..........

[Locutus]

To webpages (which works crappy, BTW), but AFAIK not to other parts of the same document. Or maybe you can, but it's still slow as arse, and can't be viewed online.

[Locutus]

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[Solver]

I *think* that you can link to other parts of document in PDF... probably... but it indeed is slow!

Come on, what are the advatnages of PDF over HTML, after all?

[Martin GĂĽhmann]

Originally posted by Solver
Come on, what are the advatnages of PDF over HTML, after all?

An HRML document is actal not one file it is a bunch of files if you have a lot of graphics in, so for online view via the internet it is ok, but if I wan't to save it local then I have to make shure that I catch everything and make shure everything is at the right place, for a *.pdf file I just need to download it and no other problems.

-Martin

[Tamerlin]

The best would be an HTML file and a PDF file. Once you the HTML file is ready, it is very easy to translate it into PDF which is more... "printer friendly".

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Solver
Come on, what are the advatnages of PDF over HTML, after all?

1. Easy to create using existing page layout tools (without leading to crappy not-allround-compatible code)
2. Actually lends itself for printing. Displays and prints similarly.
3. Supports complex layout controls.
4. Packages publications in a single file.
5. Better suited to managing large documents.
...

Need I go on?

Anyway, I think LaTeX is the way to go. Why choose if you can have both?

[Immortal Wombat]

I've often pondered that there should be a file type somewhat like a .jar file, the java archive thing, but with HTML. Stick the html files in a zip file, you go to open it, and the index.html displays in your browser. One file, lots of pages. Easy.

[Maquiladora]

If its in a exe archive within the patch itself it can extract into the ctp2 under its own "manual" folder directory when the patch extracts too, then just make a shortcut to the index.html with the patch exe.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
I've often pondered that there should be a file type somewhat like a .jar file, the java archive thing, but with HTML. Stick the html files in a zip file, you go to open it, and the index.html displays in your browser. One file, lots of pages. Easy.

Isn't a chtml file something like that?..

[Gilgamensch]

Originally posted by Locutus

Anyway, I think LaTeX is the way to go. Why choose if you can have both?

As I said, I had a look into it, but it seems rather complex. Also (what I wasn't able to find), is it free? Do you need anything as the reader to download?

I would still rather go for PDF

[The Big Mc]

LaTeX is available for free

Follow one of the hyper links of page one it will get you there also apparently according to others in the thread you can save a pdf so all you need as a end-user is acrobat

i posted it here for you so you don't have to go back

http://www.latex-project.org/

[Gilgamensch]

Jusr reading through some so called introductions..........

seems rather complex to me, espacially for backslash (\):

$\backslash$ command instead. It produces a \.

Jesus......all this just for a simple \

[Locutus]

That's because the backslash is normally never used, only for special characters and stuff. The only place where it *is* used is in Windows paths, which once again proves how crappy MS is in its non-compliance to standards...

[J Bytheway]

You can define your own abbreviation if backslashes appear often (like "\bs", for example) - that's one of the great powers of TeX. It's really not as compicated as it first apppears. Once you've written something with it, it all seems pretty obvious. For the purposes of this manual, it would be little different from writing everything out in plain text, with a few commands here and there for inserting figures, or making text italic, etc.