John,

Just curious.... but ..why are there two sets of manuals?  (PDF and HTML)

It seems like it would be a lot easier to maintain just one.

Dave

On 10/27/2011 7:19 AM, John Thornton wrote:
> Was there a general consensus among the developers that anything with
> the word HAL in it should be removed from the Integrators Manual? I for
> one am against it for one reason, it leaves the integrator manual
> lacking vital information to build and set up a machine. Even with large
> screen monitors having to have two pdf's open along with your configs
> and jumping back and forth makes no sense to me. My original driving
> force to work on the manuals was because I never could remember what
> manual I had read something in. I have been working for years trying to
> reduce the HAL manual to only those things that pertain to running HAL
> standalone and making the Integrator Manual the place for all the
> information a machine integrator might need, but I guess that has been
> all been changed...
>
> We do have two sets of documents the pdf and the html and I know of no
> reason they must match exactly in layout. They are two completely
> different ways of having the information with different navigation schemes.
>
> John
>
> On 10/27/2011 3:21 AM, Kim Kirwan wrote:
>    
>> Two quick comments:
>>
>> (1) There shouldn't be anything missing that I am aware of.
>> The various drivers, along with many other HAL-related items,
>> have been moved to the HAL manual. The drivers should be in
>> Part II.
>>
>> (2) If another layout is desired for the HTML docs, it should
>> be in addition to, rather than instead of, the current layout.
>> This is because one of my goals was to get our HTML docs layout
>> to match our PDF docs, so we didn't appear to have two sets
>> of docs. I have no objection to having a second HTML layout if
>> it is more familiar or convenient.
>>
>> Kim
>>
>>
>> On 10/26/2011 11:22 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
>>      
>>> John Thornton wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I pushed on the 24th to the 2.5 docs and it showed up within an hour or
>>>> two.
>>>>
>>>> Everything except 2.4 docs are merge up from the branch. For 2.4 docs
>>>> you must push to the 2.4 branch the .lyx change and for 2.5 docs you
>>>> must push the .txt change to the 2.5 branch.
>>>>
>>>> I'm unsure about the state of the latexmath but I though I saw a fix for
>>>> that somewhere. I can look into why so much is missing from the PDF's
>>>> this weekend.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> If you want a real horror show, see the kinematics section of the
>>> integrators manual.
>>> The pdf has a bunch of formulas in it, the 2.5 html version is just a mess.
>>>
>>> Kim Kirwan was going to look at the omissions, and I think maybe it was
>>> Pavel
>>> that said he did something that fixed the latexmath conversion.  I hope
>>> I didn't
>>> dream it, I am pretty sure somebody said they had committed a fix that made
>>> the latexmath work, but I must not have saved the message.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
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