Re: [Gretl-users] New "frontier" package Gretl-users Digest, Vol 138, Issue 14
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 24.07.2018 um 20:37 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Alecos Papadopoulos wrote:
>
>> I cannot find the "frontier.pdf" documentation. Does it become
available
>> only when I install the package locally?
>
> Yes, that's right. It would probably be good to arrange for the PDF
> documentation for function packages to be browsable online, but for now
> it's strictly embedded in the package.
>
There was this idea to link to all the documentation files from this page:
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/gretl/cgi-bin/gretldata.cgi?opt=SHOW_FUNCS, but
unfortunately I haven't been able to cut through the C-based web page code
yet.
Maybe gretldata.cgi should be converted to python or similar. Since
I live and breathe C that's what I naturally use to write almost
everything but I'm willing to compromise ;-)
One possibly low-cost idea: if you click on one of the gfn links on
the above-mentioned page (SHOW_FUNCS) Firefox (for example) will
show you the XML (gfn files being XML) -- but Firefox says "This XML
file does not appear to have any style information associated with
it. The document tree is shown below." And you get a not-so-pretty
blob with no line-breaks in the Help or hansl code.
Does anyone know of a way to "associate style information" with an
arbitrary XML file sitting on a given web server such that a browser
would, at least, respect line breaks? Or maybe even do effective
pretty-printing?
Allin