Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 30 Jan 2022 15:15, Karl Berry wrote: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/index-full.html > > It's better, but how about a non-blank line? > > (does obey table cells? I'm never sure.) > > Obviously we're getting down to trivialities, feel free to ignore :). i actually

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-30 Thread Karl Berry
> https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/index-full.html It's better, but how about a non-blank line? (does obey table cells? I'm never sure.) Obviously we're getting down to trivialities, feel free to ignore :). so i guess once gnulib merges my update, If nothing happens

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 29 Jan 2022 15:56, Karl Berry wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/index-full.html > > It looks nice, but the plethora of versions becomes rather an > undifferentiated mass. Maybe make each major release its own > , as in: > > Automake 1.16 releases: > > 1.16* versions >

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-29 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Mike, https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/index-full.html It looks nice, but the plethora of versions becomes rather an undifferentiated mass. Maybe make each major release its own , as in: Automake 1.16 releases: 1.16* versions Automake 1.15 releases: 1.15* versions Just

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 28 Jan 2022 16:35, Karl Berry wrote: > i was planning on the full index being maintained here: > https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/index-full.html > > Sounds good. > > >>See the [full version index] for other versions of the manual. > > Good. Maybe something

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-28 Thread Karl Berry
i was planning on the full index being maintained here: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/index-full.html Sounds good. >>See the [full version index] for other versions of the manual. Good. Maybe something like: >>See the [full version index] for the manual for

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 27 Jan 2022 15:21, Karl Berry wrote: > per your request, the default is unchanged. > > I understand (and thanks), but my question was about the "table" > (whether it's actually a or not): > > * (Feb 2018) GNU Automake 1.16 (HTML PDF) > * (Dec 2014) GNU Automake 1.15 (HTML PDF) > * (Jun

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-27 Thread Karl Berry
per your request, the default is unchanged. I understand (and thanks), but my question was about the "table" (whether it's actually a or not): * (Feb 2018) GNU Automake 1.16 (HTML PDF) * (Dec 2014) GNU Automake 1.15 (HTML PDF) * (Jun 2013) GNU Automake 1.14 (HTML PDF) On what page were

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 26 Jan 2022 19:50, Karl Berry wrote: > so the default manual/ landing page & manual will be unchanged from today > other than having a link to the full versioned index > > What url/filename are you thinking for the "full versioned index"? per your request, the default is unchanged.

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-26 Thread Karl Berry
* i'm assuming that we don't want to modify lib/gendocs_template since it's synced with upstream gnulib For sure. so the default manual/ landing page & manual will be unchanged from today other than having a link to the full versioned index What url/filename are you

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
i can work with this so plan is to update maintainer/maint.mk: * web-manual will insert a link to the full versioned index in the index.html that gendocs.sh produces * i'm assuming that we don't want to modify lib/gendocs_template since it's synced with upstream gnulib * web-manual-update

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-19 Thread Karl Berry
* the current page, but with an entry/link like "For older manuals, please see this index." Agreed this is preferable. Not a fan of the gcc index page. changes to the manual the rename or reorder chapters, we're breaking those historical links. Reordering isn't a problem; that

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 18 Jan 2022 19:27, Karl Berry wrote: > Having multiple versions of the manual online sounds all to the good to > me. As long as it's being done at all, I wouldn't hesitate to put up > the manuals for every release, not just the major releases. For 1.16.x, > I'm afraid I rather broke the

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-18 Thread Karl Berry
Having multiple versions of the manual online sounds all to the good to me. As long as it's being done at all, I wouldn't hesitate to put up the manuals for every release, not just the major releases. For 1.16.x, I'm afraid I rather broke the previous rules for major releases anyway.

Re: multiple online manual versions

2022-01-18 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 8:14 AM Mike Frysinger wrote: > currently the automake website only hosts one manual version -- the latest. > when working with older code bases, especially when trying to update them > to newer versions, it can be helpful to have the older manual available to > quickly

multiple online manual versions

2022-01-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
currently the automake website only hosts one manual version -- the latest. when working with older code bases, especially when trying to update them to newer versions, it can be helpful to have the older manual available to quickly refer to. can we do this for automake ? i'm thinking of just