From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: On-line manual
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:09:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irhjymeb.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87slhap3qn.fsf@laas.fr> ( Ludovic Courtès's message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:22:40 +0200")
ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> As a followup to a recent discussion on `guile-user', I made the manual
> for 1.8.1 available from the web in a way that is similar to what other
> GNU projects do:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/
Nice.
> I also updated http://www.gnu.org/manual/ so that it points to this
> address (the update has not propagated yet).
My feeling is that the "guile" link in http://www.gnu.org/manual
should always go to the same page as the "Manuals" link in
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile.
> However, the current doc page [0] has more information (manual for 1.6
> and for GOOPS, tutorial, book) so we need to find a way to "merge" both
> pages. For GOOPS, I think we could add an entry in `/manual' and have
> that point to `/software/guile/manual/goops'. For the other docs, we
> could add pointers in http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/ and have
> that point to subdirectories. Finally, the Guile web site could refer
> to that page as well, rather than having a separate `docs.html' page.
>
> Opinions?
That sounds fine from a usage point of view, but it also sounds
unnecessarily hard to implement, if pages like
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual are generated as a whole by
gendocs.sh. It sounds to me as though it would be easier to keep the
existing http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs.html as the main
Manuals page, and modify its "Reference Manual for Guile 1.8" link to
point to http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual.
Then later, if we want, we can progressively create parallels of
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual for the GOOPS and 1.6
manuals, and so on, and just update the links on
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs.html to point to them.
Regards,
Neil
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-27 8:22 On-line manual Ludovic Courtès
2006-11-13 23:09 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2006-11-28 21:31 ` Kevin Ryde
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