Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-23 Thread Olivier Chapuis
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:21:57AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:32:32PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However the .sgml is really hard to read. The markup gets in the way. I don't

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-12 Thread Olivier Chapuis
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:16:51AM -0500, parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Dan Espen thusly... - Possibility to have a printable version of the documentation. I.e., a ps and/or pdf FVWM book. I'd add, the ability to include images. Some of the documentation talks

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-12 Thread Olivier Chapuis
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:16:57AM -0500, Eric Gillespie wrote: Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that what we need is SGML+DocBook. The LDP and numerous open source project use this now. Everyone

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-12 Thread Olivier Chapuis
and/or pdf FVWM book. I think that what we need is SGML+DocBook. The LDP and numerous open source project use this now. Maybe I don't have all the facts, but using SGML seems like overkill to me. Were it up to me, I'd maintain the fvwm documentation as POD (perl's Plain Old Documentation

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-12 Thread Olivier Chapuis
I send an answer to this message but it does not appear. Maybe it was condidered as a SPAM as it contains html? I try again ... Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at URL:http://www.fvwm.org/. To unsubscribe from the list, send unsubscribe fvwm-workers in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-12 Thread Mikhael Goikhman
On 10 Jan 2003 23:26:41 +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: I have a concrete proposition for improving FVWM documentation. Looks pretty good to me. I may write pod2xml convertor once I understand how it should work, so we don't need to worry about the existing pod documentation. If this helps, we

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-12 Thread Dan Espen
Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:32:32PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sorry, what did Dominik say? Take a look at the thread which start with: 8 Aug 2002 Len Philpot Documentation (was: Re: FVWM: How do I

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-12 Thread Olivier Chapuis
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:32:32PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a concrete proposition for improving FVWM documentation. This has been discussed a number of time and I think that action is needed. I am really agree with the last mail

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-12 Thread Olivier Chapuis
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:32:32PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a concrete proposition for improving FVWM documentation. This has been discussed a number of time and I think that action is needed. I am really agree with the last mail

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-12 Thread Olivier Chapuis
Answer attached as I think it is rejected by the SPAM filter. Olivier On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:32:32PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a concrete proposition for improving FVWM documentation. This has been discussed a number of time

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-11 Thread Eric Gillespie
Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that what we need is SGML+DocBook. The LDP and numerous open source project use this now. Everyone else has moved on to XML, using Norm Walsh's very nice docbook-xsl stylesheets. docbook2man - a dramatic perl script that can convert the

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-11 Thread Rob Park
. The LDP and numerous open source project use this now. Maybe I don't have all the facts, but using SGML seems like overkill to me. Were it up to me, I'd maintain the fvwm documentation as POD (perl's Plain Old Documentation). POD is a very simple format, and there already exists many scripts

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-11 Thread Olivier Chapuis
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:16:57AM -0500, Eric Gillespie wrote: Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that what we need is SGML+DocBook. The LDP and numerous open source project use this now. Everyone else has moved on to XML, using Norm Walsh's very nice docbook-xsl

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-11 Thread Dan Espen
Olivier Chapuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a concrete proposition for improving FVWM documentation. This has been discussed a number of time and I think that action is needed. I am really agree with the last mail of Dominik on the subject. I'm sorry, what did Dominik say

Re: FVWM Documentation

2003-01-11 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Dan Espen thusly... - Possibility to have a printable version of the documentation. I.e., a ps and/or pdf FVWM book. I'd add, the ability to include images. Some of the documentation talks about visual effects, but there are no illustrations in our

FVWM Documentation

2003-01-10 Thread Olivier Chapuis
Hello, I have a concrete proposition for improving FVWM documentation. This has been discussed a number of time and I think that action is needed. I am really agree with the last mail of Dominik on the subject. I've just this mail in my brain but roughly speaking we need: - The current man pages