Carilda Thomas wrote:
> If there is a function page already, I will use it, or possibly correct any
> mistakes I find on it (spelling, typos, inaccuracies, whatever).
It's in the CVS archive (midgard/doc)
> However -- I have bemoaned in private the problems about trying to get docbook
> onto a Solaris -- docbook depends on SGML, which depends on latex, which depends
> on tex (or tetex, as it happens). Trying to build teTeX is an exercise in extreme
> masochism. The Makefiles are full of constructs which GNU make rejects, and have
> to be fixed one by one as the errors come up. I have been doing this in
> background for about 2 weeks (in deep background), and finally got everything to
> compile and install and the programs mf and mpost dump core.
http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/tetex.html has binaries for
Sparc/Solaris > 2.4
> Probably I will go to TUG and join and buy their CD-ROM. (Hang head in geek shame
> for having to install binaries....)
Feh. Raise of hands all of you who install *everything* from the
bootstrap code
on upwards by hand. Noone?
> P.S. If we can get this working, I can start (Real Soon Now (TM Jerry Pournelle))
> to document the functions for 2.0 -- hey -- documents before code? What a radical
> idea........ If we got that in front of everyone, it would be a very public API.
After the 2.0 core is done this would be a splendid idea. Start
documenting the core and
press each project author to release info on what he/she is doing, and
how, and why.
emile
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