Re: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> For PDFs, it depends on the type and quality of the manual. If it is
>>> short and/or poor, then nobody will spend hours reading it. But if the
>>> manual is good and long, then there is a chance that people will spend
>>> a lot of time reading it and it would be nice to have a good quality
>>> environment to read it (again, I'm talking about font graphics
>>> rendering).
>>
>> I agree that rendering is much better in PDF.
>>
>>> This is analogous to making public buildings suitable for people with
>>> wheel-chairs, ... may people don't care, until they are affected :-(
>>
>> I disagree with the analogy.  On a computer, I find it simply less
>> convenient to browse PDFs than to browse Info, and that outweighs the
>> better rendering quality.  (As it turns out, Info is also much more
>> usable for people using a Braille reader.)

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> It seems you don't get that my point is not about personal preferences
> or feelings. It's about physical impairments (and there are plenty of
> shades of grays between good sight and completely blind, where big,
> good quality fonts matter).

My point about Braille reader is very clearly about physical
impairment.  I think I do get your point.

Ludo’.