PDF datasheets (was Re: Sources for 8b TTL keyboards (Keytronics))

For something like documentation, about the only thing worse than no standard is a moving-target "standard". Bloated? As in, smaller than PDFs? As in, how splendidly "grep something *.pdf" works? As compared to how poorly "grep something *.txt" works? Or whatever other searching tool you happen to want to use (as opposed to having to use whatever your specialized PDF viewer application's author thought was a good interface)? I've seen usable indexes in plaintext documents - and rarely want them anyway because of the ease of searching. (Indexes are mostly a holdover from paper, where searching is nontrivial and thus a list of pointers is valuable.) As in, editing the text files to add whatever you want? Perhaps. Whatever you mean by it, either it's trivial for text files or I've never missed it. You're welcome to your "better things" all you like. But please stop holding those of us who care more about getting the information than about using the Latest Whizzbang Impediment To Getting Work Done back I have nothing against chipmakers providing PDF datasheets. What I object to is their providing _only_ PDF datasheets - or, more precisely, their not providing the useful content in plain text. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B