[gmx-users] Suggestion to update online .mdp options for pull code

[Szilárd Páll]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:23 Christopher Neale <chris.neale at alum.utoronto.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear developers:
> >
> > The online manual lists pull-code options here:
> > http://manual.gromacs.org/current/online/mdp_opt.html#pull
>
>
> No, because those pages are version stamped e.g. 5.0.7 because that version
> has to have its online documentation somewhere, and 5.1.x has different
> needs. When we released every few years these things didn't change or
> matter much, but now the pace of GROMACS change is much faster than
> people's changes in usage, so version-specific documentation is what we
> must have.
>
> that seem to have not been updated since:
> >
> http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/5.1/ReleaseNotes/new-features.html#changed-the-way-pull-directions-are-selected
> >
> > It took me a while to figure out what was going on since the .mdp options
> > are not listed in the pdf manual either.
> >
>
> Indeed, but you can find all the 5.1 documentation (various new content
> also) via the link I suggested to you recently. Google can now do a good
> job of finding at least this documentation, whereas it can't ever find
> anything in a big pdf lump...


That's incorrect, see:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35287?hl=en

PDFs are fully indexed by Google (and other engines), contribute to
pagerank, and to the best of my knowledge there should be only minor
drawback to search-friendliness wrt HTML pages.

As far as I know, PDFs can be made ill-suited for naviagtion/search by lack
of index, missing or dummy tags and properties, and to some extent by the
lack of PDF/A standard compliance. Not sure how well does the manual's PDF
version do in this respect, but I'll check.


> I plan to move more content to the new format
> as time passes, but it's a big job!
>
> Mark
>
>
> > Thank you,
> > Chris.
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