Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 12/9/10 8:04 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >> The D website is 404'ing for the library page: >> >> http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/phobos.html >> >> And I've had an idea to make the documentation website a little easier to >> navigate. Here's what the docs look like with their old design: >> >> http://imgur.com/8Vdrj.jpg >> >> Now, that's quite a mess to look at. The text isn't aligned or anything >> so it doesn't look that good, and you can't really tell which of those >> names are functions, class definitions or enums, etc. >> >> So I just quickly sketched out what I'd like to see instead: >> >> http://imgur.com/0lufR.jpg >> >> Disregard the off coloring, font sizes, and my general lack of design >> skills please :). The main point is to put the links in a table so >> they're aligned and easier to browse, and maybe even categorize all the >> names by their type (functions/enums/etc). >> >> I'm pretty sure adding a table is trivial, but I don't know if we can >> automatically categorize all the names and put them in separate tables. >> >> Thoughts? >> > > Very nice initiative. I'm not sure how we can implement that easy > without considerable effort; currently, the list is generated with > Javascript using a flat list. To generate a more structured list, the > programmer would need to insert appropriate cues in the documentation. > > Andrei
With the json files dmd produces it can be automated, and you can do it the ddoc way (so latex and other formats would also be supported.) A disadvantage is that ddoc processor has to be ran twice plus an additional pass over the json is needed. ddoc support for this would obviously be better. I got this far (but it uses non-standard css3): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6777848/ddoc_index.jpeg I'll share the tool when it's more complete, if this is something that is wanted for phobos I am willing to put it together.