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Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format
From: |
Mario Domenech Goulart |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format |
Date: |
20 May 2007 01:33:01 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
Hi Adhi,
On Sat, 19 May 2007 18:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Adhi Hargo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sorry if I don't get the gist of this conversation
> (I'm new, here, anyway), but isn't converting
> Chicken's manual to Texinfo format a bit waste of
> time? Because the way I see it, chicken.pdf isn't
> really counts as a *reference* manual: you know, the
> kind of document one would print and provide within
> hand's reach, or as an INFO file one would keep in an
> Emacs frame while coding Scheme in another. I use MIT
> Scheme's reference docs (and some of Chicken's own
> source codes) for that purpose, and it suits me fine
> (well, barely).
>
> IMHO this is the right time to start redoing the docs,
> one that's sensible to be done in Texinfo, with
> separate tutorial, reference, usage manual and
> technical sections, one that's really decent to be
> called a reference document (the kind of docs Texinfo
> format is aiming at, I think).
>
> If anyone (with enough authority) willing to
> streamline the works, deciding what kind of contents
> would be included, I'm looking forward to contributing
> to a section or two.
I'm afraid I don't understand your point. The User's Manual looks
very good to me. Can you provide more details about what you think
could be improved (and how)?
Best wishes,
Mario
- [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Ivan Raikov, 2007/05/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2007/05/18
- Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Ivan Raikov, 2007/05/19
- Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2007/05/19
- Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Adhi Hargo, 2007/05/19
- Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format,
Mario Domenech Goulart <=
- [Chicken-users] A Proposal for Texinfo Reference Manual, was: Re: Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Adhi Hargo, 2007/05/21
- Re: [Chicken-users] A Proposal for Texinfo Reference Manual, was: Re: Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Brandon Van Every, 2007/05/21
- [Chicken-users] Re: A Proposal for Texinfo Reference Manual, Ivan Raikov, 2007/05/25
- Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Ivan Raikov, 2007/05/20
- Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Graham Fawcett, 2007/05/21
- Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Ivan Raikov, 2007/05/22
Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Alejandro Forero Cuervo, 2007/05/31
Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format, Adhi Hargo, 2007/05/31