Hi Daniel
You are welcome

Plesse help me understanding Rest&Sphinx
Can we generate also a pdf Rest&Sphinx?
can we integrate existing documentation in c\harbour\doc?
Which is first step?
Can try with a little part ?

we can follow your way using Rest&Sphinx becase we not have jet any valid
way

i suggest you subscribe  developer mailing list


can try with a little part of harbour

2010/2/16 Daniel Gonçalves <[email protected]>

> Hello,
> Why not use ReST [1] (Restructured Text) using the excelent Sphinx [2]
> documentation tool. These are the tools used to document the Python
> project [3][4].
> If I can help in any way, I'm available and very insterested in a
> better/accessible Harbour documentation.
>
> [1] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
> [2] http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
> [3] http://www.python.org/
> [4] http://docs.python.org/library/index.html
>
> In the page [4], look at the "Show source" link on the left, to see
> how the source documents looks like.
>
> Regards,
>
> 2010/2/16 Massimo Belgrano <[email protected]>:
> > Yes i intend volunteers speaking (or better, writing) English for
> > a collectors team
> >
> >
> > One easy way of learning is start from al sample/source in various tests
> > directory because each function have a demonstration
> > start learn from sample instead that from documentation is used from most
> > harbour developer
> > subscribe Follow developer mailing list,
> > hbide have a function for find in *.prg ,*.ch  in c:\harbour (subdir) and
> > start learn from sample with coloured syntax (find in file from iconbar)
> > the search in mailing list,google,harbour dir is basic tools
> >
> > wich is better tools to create doc having same volunteers speaking (or
> > better, writing) English joining a "collectors team"?
> >
> >
> > 2010/2/16 Pete <[email protected]>
> >
> >> Hi Massimo,
> >>
> >> Sorry for the late reply, i was away. i did download hbide, than you, no
> >> time yet to investigate.
> >> About harbour's documentation i did post a message with my thoughts,
> >> replying to Mr. Czerpak. (unfortunately that reply went wrongly to a new
> >> thread -my fault and my yahoo's mailing client.)
> >>
> >> you say you need "english people" with harbour knowledge to write
> >> documentation. by "english people" i think you  mean volunteers speaking
> (or
> >> better, writing) English, and you are right!
> >>
> >> However, as has already been pointed out, most of the harbour's
> >> documentation is already written and lies into several texts -old and
> new
> >> ones. If this is true, then the need is not "English writers" but a
> >> small team of "collectors", who will find a way to extract/collect these
> >> pieces of documentation, edit them (in cooperation to core-developers to
> >> avoid mistakes) and to incorporate them into a flexible and easy handled
> >> help system or to put it more "technologically descriptive" we need a
> "HELP
> >> MACHINE", with an easy to plug "slot", which would attract harbour
> people to
> >> feed this machine, bringing their contributions (documentation text,
> >> samples, etc.).
> >>
> >>
> >> P.S.: I really wonder, how can the harbour users to make use (without
> >> documentation) of this very developed and so much enriched compiler, as
> >> harbour has already become after all those many additions and
> enhancements
> >> that have been done by the unbelievable creative developers (czerzpak,
> >> szakats and co.) during last months. I think that very few of users
> utilize
> >> the total of harbour's capabilities and features, not to mention that
> this
> >> documentation lack is an 'inhibitory factor' for new users to come,  but
> >> maybe  i am wrong and it's only me that have difficulty to follow the
> whole
> >> process.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >>
>

-- 
Massimo Belgrano
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