RE: [Axiom-developer] LaTeX source of the Rosetta document?

[Bill Page]

On September 17, 2006 11:17 PM C Y wrote:
> 
> Thanks Tim.  I added a comment to the RosettaStone page - I can't
> seem to edit the page itself, perhaps because of the large number
> of <a href= type entries?

Yes, probably. We still have the pain caused by spam to deal with. :(
Right now to edit these pages with many links you must have a Zope
user id and password.

> 
> Is anyone else seeing a problem with the formatting of the comments
> on the RosettaStone wiki page or is it just my browser?
> 

No it is not your browser. The formatting was a little strange because
this page used the old HTML page type. To be formatted properly comments
would have to be written in HTML. This is a limitation of the Zwiki
software. But I have just change the page type to allow StructuredText
so the comments should be ok now.

> By the way, what is the best/preferred way to handle this page -
> edit the pamphlet file and then update the wiki page, or edit the
> wiki page and occasionally go back and edit the pamphlet file?
> 

This page

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/RosettaStone

was the result of an early experiment to convert LaTeX to HTML before
we had support for pamphlets on the wiki. The result of the conversion
is one really large page which is very slow to load. Perhaps we should
either do a better job of conversion to HTML (multiple pages) or maybe
just replace it with the pamphlet version?

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/axiom--test--1/src/doc/Rosetta

At least that would simplify the online edit issue. I could also probably
eliminate the ban on links inside pamphlet files since spammers are
unlikely to go to the trouble of editing LaTeX/noweb pages. (There would
still be a restriction in the comments section of the pamplet page.)

What do you think?

Regards,
Bill Page.