Re: [Gretl-devel] Possible manual reorganization

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Some time ago it was asked whether the structure of the manual could be > optimized. Here's a suggestion which probably doesn't attain the optimum > but IMHO could be an improvement: > > - Introduce a new part "Programming in gretl (a.k.a. introduction to > 'hansl')". This part would (initially) consist of chapters 9 through 13 > (maybe also 14). > > - Convert chapter 12 (lists and strings) into sections of chapter 11 > (data types). I also thought about doing the same with chapter 13 > (matrices), but matrices are so important and chapter 13 so long that it > probably deserves to be left as is. > > - move chapter 10 (functions) to the end of the new hansl part (i.e. > after what's now chapter 13 or chapter 14) > > what do you think? Actually, I think that at this stage hansl deserves its own manual, more or less like Doornik's "Introduction to Ox" (http://www.doornik.com/ox/OxIntro.pdf). It's something I've been thinking about for a while. The only problem is that it'd be rather time consuming to write, and I'm not exactly idle in this period.