[Info-vax] Online and offline VMS documentation in HTML format

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-10-02 kl. 18:42, skrev Simon Clubley:

> Does anyone else think it would be useful for VSI to supply and
> host HTML versions of the documentation so that you could point
> someone directly to a section of the manual without them having
> to download the whole manual or having to read an older version
> of the documentation online at a third party site ?
> 
> Simon.
> 

I kind of like the page oriented style of PDF docs. If there is
something I'd need to sit down and read properly, I can easily
print 10-20 pages and get an easy to read version.

 > without them having to download the whole manual...

What is the problem? I just tried a few of the PDF files from VSI,
and it is 1-3 sec per manual, more or less instant. The Cobol Ref
Manual (6,7 MB) took approx 1 sec.

Yes, HTML has some good sides, such as cross linking between different
parts of the docs, but then you have to write/design your docs that way
from the start. But I do not think this particular question is one of
the major ones for VSI to care about right now.

Jan-Erik.