From: Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...> - 2014-07-28 18:25:27
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Technically speaking, we do support HTML Help, as that is the format of our online documentation. So, I think what you are really asking for is a packaged version of the HTML documentation that you find online that one can just simply download for themselves? As a quick solution for the moment, you can go to the following link: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.github.com and click on the "Download .zip" button on the right side. That will get you the online documentation that should work off-line. Ben Root On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Gary Setter <gar...@ya...> wrote: > Monday, July 28, 2014 08:16 AM > Dear Sirs, > Please consider including Html Help as a third format for MatPlotLib > documentation. I was first introduced to MatPlotLib at an online class in > programming which used Python and MatPlotLib. I was impressed by MatPlotLib > but believed that the help system could be better for someone like me. > > At the time, only PDF was available, which has these problems: > - The index page is difficult to navigate > - You cannot move backwards and forwards as you follow hyperlinks > - Being page oriented, text that spans pages has a distracting page break > - In some places, text spills off the page and is not visible. > > You added Html support online, which is was a great improvement. However > it has a fatal flaw for someone like me: > - It is unavailable to people without an internet connection when then > they are working. > > Of the help documents that I used or written, (plain text, UNIX man pages, > LaTex, WinHelp and Html Help), Html Help is by far the best system. Html > help is: > - Self contained > - Available off line > - Easy to navigate > - Easy to use index > - Easy to use table of contents > > There is only one problem that I know of concerning using Html Help for > MatPlotLib documentation, support for it on UNIX systems. Rather than > rejecting Html Help, why not work on supporting it on UNIX systems? > > To see what I'm talking about, please take a look at the Html Help version > of MatPlotLib 1.3.0 which I converted from the PDF file. It is a > sourceforge project which you can access here: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlibashtmlhelp/?source=directory > > What do you think? Is Html Help a format for offline documentation that > you are willing to support or at least accept? Please reply here or to > gar...@ya.... > > Gary Setter > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Infragistics Professional > Build stunning WinForms apps today! > Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. > Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Mat...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > > |