Also, the github wiki pages can be placed in the project repo: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6941688/how-to-integrate-a-github-wiki-into-the-main-project but that's still markdown syntax. I'm not sure if it allows for plain html.
Laurent On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Greg Hendershott <[email protected] > wrote: > Another option would be to generate Markdown files, which GitHub does > display nicely for a repo's normal branch(es) (not just the "gh-pages" > branch). > > For a smallish project, it might be OK for all its documentation to be > the repo's README.md. Which you could generate from a README.scrbl > file: Racket 5.3.2 added a --markdown flag to the Scribble > command-line tool. > > Or if you prefer a simpler README.md, it could link to one or more > separate Markdown files in the repo. > > (This isn't the answer for very big and/or complicated docs. And it > might not even be the long-term answer for smaller ones. But it's an > another option.) > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Laurent <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just in case this can help, there is githubpreview, and maybe > pages.github: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8446218/how-to-see-an-html-page-on-github-as-a-normal-rendered-html-page-to-see-preview > > > > Haven't tried, but I suppose it's probably not the perfect solution. > > Laurent > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> This is one of the items on the list of future work: > >> > >> > >> > http://docs.racket-lang.org/planet2/Future_Plans.html#%28part._.Long_.Term%29 > >> > >> It's not trivial because (a) the package system only ships source, not > >> compiled things like docs; (b) packages can have many Scribble > documents as > >> their documentation; and (c) the main distribution mechanism, Github, is > >> designed for source and not HTML. Obviously it would be trivial to allow > >> package authors to add a link in their package description to docs > >> somewhere, but that wouldn't be very robust and would put a lot of work > on > >> them. > >> > >> Jay > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Michael Wilber <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Hey there! > >>> > >>> Is there any convention for linking to docs from planet2's online list > >>> of packages? > >>> > >>> E.g. as a user, it would be nice to have a "Click here to see > >>> documentation" link from, say, > >>> https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/disassemble that either links to the > >>> scribbled docs in the source or to a URL specified by the package > author > >>> in info.rkt or somewhere. > >>> ____________________ > >>> Racket Users list: > >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> > >> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > >> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay > >> > >> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 > >> > >> ____________________ > >> Racket Users list: > >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > >> > > > > > > ____________________ > > Racket Users list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > >
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