From: Daniel Lewis <danieljohnlewis@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T00:45:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestion to the Pragmatic Programmers

On 08/12/05, Hans  Fugal <fugalh@gmail.com> wrote:
> While I don't have pickaxe2, I do have the rails book and I find the
> PDF very easy to use as a reference in Apple's Preview app (their PDF
> viewer), thanks to the drawer and search box. CHM - is that the windows
> help format? If it were to be in some plain-text hypertext format I
> would say a better bet would be HTML.
>
> I haven't really used Acrobat in several versions (since 4 I think);
> does it not have the table of contents and text searching?

Acrobat Reader (or Adobe Reader as its now called) does indeed have
search functionality. Plus the index of the book has links to the
pages. So why would CHM be any better?
An even nicer way of doing a help system for the book, would be to
make a querying service using ontologies in RDF/OWL.... but thats not
going to happen :)

The book is great, and its really good in pdf version.

Daniel.