Game Manual in HTML Format ??????

[KillerManJaro]

Piping up. It is disapointing whenever I don't get a printed manual, but it's not so bad if I can just hit alt-tab and read what I need. Thing is, HTML was just a bad choice....

And why can I get a 263 page, sprial bound manual with Baldur's Gate II, and pay the same $39.95? 4 CDs, teriffic manual, same price. Tops out at only about 200 hours of gameplay, though......SE4 is infinite....


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KMJ

[Possum]

Errm, I politely disagree.

I have no trouble at all with the HTML format, I can Alt-Tab back and forth just fine, and I *hate* PDF. For my money, HTML is a far superior cross-platform format for documentation

[Knight]

As an owner of a HP2200, I'd love to print out a colour .pdf manual for SE4.

For the record, my mailman is late on the day I expect to get SE4. Guess I'll have to print out a stamp for $6.18 and find something massing 70 pounds to sit by my mailbox. Maybe some bricks.

Oops. *whack* Veteran's Day. All the people with their mail flags up and garbage out threw me. It took a look at the date on the newspaper to remind me. Of course, the huge "Veterans Celebration" headline helpd, too.

[This message has been edited by Knight (edited 11 November 2000).]

[Taqwus]

PDF specifies layout. HTML merely provides guidelines; it's up to a browser to determine how to implement the specifics. For instance, the page that I'm looking at right now as I type this message, using Lynx, is radically different than what I'd view using Netscape, which may be different from how it appears under IE or anybody else's browser. There's a lot left up to the browser to determine.

A PDF file, however, should be viewable identically under any true PDF viewer such as Acrobat, with everything specified just so. As such, PDF gives the content author much greater guarantees about what any reader actually sees.

That said, it might be worth chucking the HTML through a converter. I might try that once I get my copy (just ordered. UPS Ground... hopefully it doesn't arrive TOO soon, since I've got a paper deadline coming up, heh...)

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Comar]

I can't believe people actually read the manuals past what they need to know to get started. :} I find them usually to be more trouble than they are worth. I would much rather learn by doing. You make more mistakes, but you can have more fun doing it.

[HistorianB]

Get the manual up in PDF. Some people like to spend time playing-to-learn. Others prefer reading-to-learn. Any reason why both can't be accommodated?

[Warspite]

Well people...one good thing about electronic manuals is that the dog can't eat it Also if you have any kids...they can't lose it or spill a drink on it I don't have the game yet but I do plan on getting it.

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-Warspite-