RPN Tutorial in retro style

[hansklav]

(07-22-2014 07:27 AM)walter b Wrote:  

(07-22-2014 05:06 AM)hansklav Wrote:  I made the Tutorial as a web page (using only HTML and CSS) and at the moment the .pdf is just a copy of the web page (for the internet generation that will be no problem ;-).

Advantage to generation Alexandria. If people don't learn from history, they've got to make the same experience once more.

Well, apart from the fact that you have to scroll a web page more or less like a papyrus scroll, I see more differences than similarities. In Alexandria they didn't have hyperlinks to circumvent that a scroll is not directly accessable somewhere in the middle, they didn't have different screen sizes (from smartphone to >30"), and the scrolling was much less convenient (no keyboards, touch screens, trackpads, mouse wheels, multi-touch mouses). So the juxtaposition of book scrolls and web pages is a bit far fetched ;-)

(07-22-2014 07:27 AM)walter b Wrote:  

(07-22-2014 05:06 AM)hansklav Wrote:  I just use a Sans-Serif font and CSS for the keys. After your reply I tried to find the KeySet4 font, but the links on the Forum do not work anymore. I will contact Vieira and try the font.

I can send you that font if you provide me an address ...

Thanks! I'll contact you.

(07-22-2014 07:27 AM)walter b Wrote:  

(07-22-2014 05:06 AM)hansklav Wrote:  I changed the 'example' shift key to the golden shift key everywhere. Think the golden shift key is the most generic shift key on HP calculators.

Sorry, the point was: Why do you print a shift key at all? You could easily claim there are keys like [LASTx] etc. on your generic calculator.

To learn that some (many) functions can only be accessed via a shift key is an important thing for first time users of HP Calculators (imho). And showing a golden key here and there makes the ’retro‘ page even more colourfull ;-)

But I'll add an explanation that the addition of a shift key to the pseudo-HP-35-Manual is a form of cheating...

Hans