http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Update-and-survey-on-the-User-Guide-tp5006542p5006555.html
> Hi,
>
> Just to update you all on the status of the user guide:
>
> First the good news: It seems to be a useful and popular resource, so we'd
> try to update
> it to IJ v1.48/49.
>
> Now the bad news: It will be very time-consuming to maintaing both
> editions (the .pdf and
> the .html) using the strategy that has been used so far[1].
>
> The issue is that (AFAIK) there is no TeX converter that is truly capable
> of converting
> the guide seemingly into HTML (presumably because it is a rather complex
> document), and
> the the inefficient "grepping"[1] we do to ensure a nice HTML layout
> breaks as soon as
> something changes. This gives us 3 choices:
>
> 1) Keep things as they are but focus first on the pdf edition, and only
> update the html
> once a finalized pdf is ready.
>
> 2) Drop the current typesetting strategy, and use something else more
> robust that can
> be automated without much fiddling.
>
> 3) Stop the dual edition and drop one of them: i.e., either improve the
> HTML or the pdf
> document.
>
> Assuming that 3) is not really an option (or is it?), the easiest and
> fastest thing right
> now (at least from my own point of view), would be a compromised option
> 2). E.g., at least
> one approach[2] seems to work, and this is how the guide could look in the
> next release:
>
>
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/136719/testguide/guide.html>
> Right now is just a sluggish file. The final result would load faster
> since it would be
> split across multiple files. But it comes with side effects:
>
> 1) the guide would loose its current look-and-feel
> 2) URLs would be page-based, e.g.:
>
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/136719/testguide/guide.html#pf35>
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/136719/testguide/guide.html#pf72>
> What do you guys think?
> Could you please let us know your thoughts?
>
> -tiago
>
>
> PS1: Something that may not be known: All the guide files are on
> GitHub[3]. There is also
> an attempted markdown version[4] (and thus, a plain text one) if
> someone wants to
> migrate it elsewhere.
>
>
> PS2: There is a page on GitHub with suggestions on how to contribute[5].
> Also, please know
> that even without a reply, all the emails you have written pointing
> to errors in the
> guide were noted.
>
> [1]
https://github.com/tferr/IJ-guide/blob/master/README> [2]
http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/> [3]
https://github.com/tferr/IJ-guide/> [4]
https://github.com/tferr/IJ-guide/blob/master/alt-versions/guide.md> [5]
https://github.com/tferr/IJ-guide#contributing> --
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