http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrFeatures - improving page

[Jari Aalto]

Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com> writes:
Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com> writes:

| Jari Aalto wrote:
| 
| > Would it be possible to provide a link to "one big HTML" in (1)
| > as well? Or perhaps I couldn't see it.
| 
| Users wanting one big document should grab the PDF. I'd like to do a
| better job of exposing the PDFs in the sidebar but I haven't had time to
| look at that yet.

PDF is not exactly a substitute for "one big HTML" as displayed in the
dev pages. HTML files can be read by text only browsers very fast (with
search capabilities). Also PDFs cannot be accessed on non-windowed
environment. We must also remember that the Linux PDF handling is not
always that convenient to Windows's counterpart.

Many sites provide both the sectioned HTML document and the full "one
big HTML". See e.g. GNU sites:

    http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/

    HTML (592K bytes) - entirely on one web page.
    HTML - with one web page per node.
    HTML compressed (136K gzipped characters) - entirely on one web page.
    HTML compressed (164K gzipped tar file) - with one web page per node.
    Info document (120K bytes gzipped tar file).
    ASCII text (396K bytes).
    ASCII text compressed (116K bytes gzipped).
    TeX dvi file (200K bytes gzipped).
    PostScript file (340K bytes gzipped).
    PDF file (808K bytes).
    Texinfo source (144K bytes gzipped tar file).

Jari