From: Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...> - 2014-07-28 18:28:14
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Going to the sourceforge page you have, I see that you mean "HTML Help" as in ".chm" files. That is something different that I am not familiar with. All of our documentation is generated from sphinx, so whatever sphinx supports, we can generate. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote: > 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 >> >> > |