proposal to omit pdf generation of reference manual

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 08:36 -0400, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
> My view on the PDF/HTML debate is that we are talking about 
> a system to do mathematics, so its documentation should be 
> be such that the mathematical content is nicely displayed. 
>  Right now the Maxima manual has a 1970s (maybe 1980s) look 
> to it, because the equations (what the system types
> out) are displayed in 2d ASCII form.  Compare that with the 
> documentation for Mathematica, Maple,
> or Mupad.
Have you seen section 64? (pages 639 through 644 in
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima.pdf)
That's my proposal of what the manual should look like.

Regards,
Jaime