| [News] New AmigaOS 4.0 ROM Kernal Reference Manuals in the works! | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 24-Apr-2002 16:18 GMT by P Ericson | 86 comments
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In a recent interview with Hyperion Software, we're told that Olaf "Olsen" Barthel is working on new ROM Kernal Reference Manuals for AmigaOS 4.0! [The "RKRM" books are the official and prime development documentation/tutorial for AmigaOS developers] As some readers of Amiga Network News may already know, Mr Barthel has previously compiled the Amiga Developer's CD.
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| Posted by Olaf Barthel on 25-Apr-2002 16:33 GMT | In reply to Comment 49 (Jack Perry):
> I don't see what all the fuss is about, PDF vs. HTML vs. CHTML vs. whatever.
> Why is everyone acting like Olaf has to pick just one??? A half-decent word
> processor will export to PDF and HTML, I reckon CHTML wouldn't be too bad,
> and surely it wouldn't take a very difficuly program to translate those to
> AmigaGuide or other formats. (...said someone who hasn't written an Amiga
> program in a looooong time.)
Decent word processor? I'm using LaTeX2e, which may not be the best choice
(getting the line breaks right was a nightmare, especially for the RKM
Libs). But looking back at how this used to be done in Commodore's days,
I guess we're all better off with a portable format for the manuscript. The
original text was set in troff format, and the illustrations were created in
a mix of old PageStream and Professional Page -- try to find working versions
of these today!
As for AmigaGuide, I don't think that this is really an option. It doesn't
scale very well, and the most simplistic HTML viewer will run rings around
it in terms of speed and features.
> [..]
> My only request: PLEASE GOD don't make the HTML file one long-a$$ document as
> H&P did with the AmigaDOS manual. My Amiga 1200 didn't have enough Chip RAM
> for it; it was slow as heck to load and render, and completely forfeited the
> biggest advantage of HTML docs IMHO.
I understand that these manuals were scanned and then set in PageMaker, whose
html output left much to be desired. Sometimes you don't have much of a choice
other than to accept whatever the software offers you :( |
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