Re: Screen-text sample-code

[Kevin McLauchlan <kevinmcl -at- magma -dot- ca>]

On Monday 27 January 2003 17:09, Beth Agnew wrote:
> How compelling is the necessity to include all
> that sample code in a printed publication? If
> your audience is primarily developers who are
> comfortable reading text online, a web page may
> be a better choice of delivery medium. This
> also lets developers copy and paste pieces of
> code thus reducing typing errors.
>
> I've handled a number of code-heavy documents
> this way, and the customer was delighted.
> Avoidance is sometimes the best solution to a
> problem. --Beth

This might actually be the most promising approach, 
although many of our customers work in isolated 
networks, with no direct internet access.  So, we'd 
probably just make it a series of text files on the CD 
or in the .zip.

/kevin


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