On 03/22/2013 03:31 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Hi All,
Maybe, we could setup a collaborative work group to do the documentation.
That is a group of us are responsible for certain groups of commands. This way
the manuals can become more complete. That way some of the more advance
stuff that is hardly documented finally gets documented.
What we would need is a specification for:
[snip]
In 45+ years of programming[1] it has never ceased to amaze me how
the wheel has to be reinvented for every new system whether
language, macro package or whatever. Why do it again? Why not adopt
some documentation system that is already widely-used and for which
infrastructure and knowledge of use is already in place?
I have no investment in any particular system. I'm happily
generating other types of non-computer-related documents using
reStructuredText since I can easily convert that various publication
formats as required without separate source files for each format.
It seems to me docutils has everything that would be needed to
document ConTeXt and is very widely used given the popularity of
Python (which makes me cringe). If doxygen or something else would
work better, so be it. The point is, **use something that exists
instead of expending time and effort reinventing the wheel yet again!**
[1] I was, am and will be a "programmer" and not a "software
developer" or "software engineer." The term adequately depicts what
I did/do while the others are simply too pretentious. Find the old
article "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" in an archive somewhere
-- I've been a "real programmer" and I suspect Hans is, too. :)
Sorry for the rants but it is so frustrating to have to install so
many different language support and documentation systems simply
because I use FOSS tools exclusively.
--
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA
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