Re: [Gretl-users] question about gretl help/manual
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Cristian Rigamonti wrote:
Some issues we should consider:
- 1. DocBook to LaTeX conversion: there are some tools (via Perl or via XSLT),
maybe they're sub-optimal, but that's a one-shot issue we can
work out.
Yes, that's worth looking into.
- 3. Re-organizing the current content, separating between:
- "technical/user-guide content" (which we would keep in XML, expunging all
extra
math)
- "reference" content (which we would convert to LaTeX)
As I understand Jack's suggestion, the idea would be to split the
material into
1) The stuff that's currently in gretl_commands.xml, which is used
to generate the plain text help files and the command reference
chapter of the existing manual. This is basically one section per
gretl command. This would stay in XML.
2) All the rest of the current manual, plus some new things that are
in the pipeline. This would go into TeX.
Given 1) in XML, one could easily produce a chm version of that
subset of the material. Msybe this should be used in place of plain
text on Windows?
Allin.