[Oberon] Re (2): Re (2): suggestions for documentation.

[Jan Verhoeven]

peter at easthope.ca wrote:
> And HTML has the preformatted element.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/pre.html


Which I use extensive;y for source code presentation. And that's what it 
was intended for...
For example in http://fruttenboel.verhoeven272.nl/obc/cgi2.html


>> For entertainment purposes, HTML will do just fine. For technical
>> matters, ...
> Are pages such as these entertainment or are they technical
> documents?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiview_orthographic_projection


This comes close to a column of Scientific American: Mathematical 
Recreations.


> http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Installation


Which relies extensively on tables, which are abandoned in HTML 5.


> I can't make the distinction.


You just need a bit more time.
HTML is to PDF what a spreadsheet is to a database. Millions use a 
spreadsheet as a database, until they make one tiny error and all 
records are jumbled up. Something impossible in a true database (like 
Borland's "Reflex").


-- 
Groetjes

Jan Verhoeven