Author: Anthony (203.214.145.218)
Date: 11-11-2004 00:38
Agreed, if they are selling it would not be a good idea WITHOUT permission. But many Atari companies have given permission in the past as they know the products are unsupported and in many cases unsaleable.
Like I said before, HiSoft have merger into a German company and disappeared. If you search in Google you will find that out in a company annual report, that's how I found out about it after finding hisoft.co.uk redirects to an unrelated business now.
If we do it, and I am happy to spend a couple of weeks on it, there are a few other online manual projects and we should put in in atariforge or similar. Probably the best way to mark up in an XML based system such as can be produced by OpenOffice (open source version of Sun's StarOffice). This program is free for Linux, PC and Unix and can distil PDF, HTML, Word and many other formats. We can then output to any format we require....
Best formats are likely to be HTML and PDF, the latter is useful as it is more what you see is what you get for print than most other formats and is widely supported on many platforms and most technical documents on the web are in PDF, visit Motorola et al's technical documentation pages for a look. HTML is desireable for obvious reasons:)
This will be a very useful project for TOS users, so worth pursuing with once we have made our best effort to contact any residual HiSoft rights owner.
Cheers
Anthony
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