Hi swedebugia, swedebugia <[email protected]> skribis:
>>> By the way, I wanted to start working on the documentation. >>> IMHO, it might benefit from a little graphical enhancement for >>> newcomers. The thing is that it's currently hosted on >>> gnu.org so it's probably not possible to modify the design. So I >>wanted >>> to ask, first, if that's something that would be welcome? What could >>be >>> the possibilities? And what would be the technical limitations? >> >>The HTML pages at gnu.org/s/guix/manual are generated from Texinfo. >>The >>CSS there is shared with all the GNU manuals, which is nice for >>consistency. Ideally modifications of the CSS would be submitted to >>the >>GNU webmaster or [email protected] (I forgot which one). However, be >>aware that you may encounter misplaced conservatism if you take that >>route, so don’t lose your hair on it. [...] > What about guix.info? We can do whatever we want there I suppose and just > link to it from the gnu site. Well in general we can always do whatever we want. :-) I do think there’s value in presenting GNU manuals in a consistent way, though, especially since Guix’ manual has cross-references to many other manuals. > Talking about CSS and the manual I would like to add patens highlighting. > The chicken documentation has this (on mouse over) and it is really nice to > be able to see how complicated expressions are composed. Yes I’d love that too! It should be doable for the “@lisp” Texinfo bits. Thanks, Ludo’.
