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There needs to be a new document format for technical docs. Mobi, epub and pdf just aren't working. I would love to be able to go all digital and read technica
by JustSomeNobody 11y ago
There needs to be a new document format for technical docs. Mobi, epub and pdf just aren't working. I would love to be able to go all digital and read technical docs on my kindle, but right now it's frustrating. Even on a tablet, it's not great.
- dublinben 11y agoLike DocBook? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoLooks like in order to read a "DocBook" book, one has to convert it to another format. Unless I am missing something.
- e12e 11y agoWhat's wrong with epub for technical docs? I don't really have a reader that is suitable for technical books (I'm not sure anyone has, passive, high-contrast, 300+dpi and a screen size at minimum the size of an A4 page) -- but if I did, I'm not sure I'd have any problems with docs being in epub. Or just html (not a big difference there, really). I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm not sure I understand what you think needs improvement wrt epub? (Now, how those epubs are made, that might be a different matter all together, like a lot of html renderings technical manuals leaves a lot to be desired -- old-school javadoc comes to mind).