So, we need a much more open documentation process in which it is far easier for folks to contribute, and where we still have a high quality of editorial review and a "reasonably" consistent prose style. I pretty much have done a poor job of maintaining the Unicon book via OpenOffice; OpenOffice was more open and accessible (and multi-platform) than when we did the book originally in MS Word (originally it was in Word because of the prospective publisher's requirements), but it is not open enough in terms of change/revision management, not portable enough, and its fonts and formatting are rather too fragile. For a 500 page book with complex figure arrangements, any time you switch to a new OS or a new version of OpenOffice, the formatting is at risk of getting messed up.
The "fix" that comes most readily to mind would be to switch to a text-based format that could be handled as part of the Unicon SVN codebase, such as LaTeX. I have ported the Unicon book to LaTeX before, and it worked, but would require a fair amount of effort to get the formatting nice and presentable again. Do you have any alternative suggestions, and for that matter, does this suggestion make good sense? As to whether fork() should fail or have a runtime error where it is not implemented, I agree with you that I made a mistake in this case, the comparables are the graphics functions, which are defined on all builds, but if you ever call them on a platform built without graphics, they die with runtime error 121 "function not supported". We should probably do a sweep through the posix functions and find all the ones that just fail on Windows, and change them to use the MissingFunc() family of macros that we use for graphics functions. Clint On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:26 PM, David Gamey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Documentation is something I can do :) >
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