On 10 Mar 2000, at 10:22, Mark Taylor wrote:
Can anyone recommend a list of documentation apart from the info database (I know about this), to help me having to pester people on this list with "novice" questions.
I find the GPC documentation to be a lot easier to read when it is presented in book form (e.g., the Postscript version), rather than in the info format. Hyperlinked documentation is great if you're using it as a reference source, i.e., looking for something specific. But the linear publication format is much more suited to reading from cover-to-cover to understand GPC's capabilities.
However, under NT, neither the Postscript version nor the info version is particularly easy to use. So I make PDF and WinHelp versions for my own use. The MikTex package, available at:
is very easy to install and will produce PDF and WinHelp versions directly from the GPC texinfo files that accompany the GPC source distribution. PDF particularly allows me to read it on the screen, print pages as desired, and globally search the documentation text. Highly recommended!
-- Dave Bryan