On Jun 1, 2008, at 6:00 AM, Darren Dale wrote:

> On Sunday 01 June 2008 12:53:48 am John Hunter wrote:
>>
>>
>> We're definitely interested.  Try checking out the htdocs svn
>> repository.

Hmm, the README file says I need all the backends working. I don't  
think I want to try that on my Mac. I'll try it out with a linux  
machine I have in lab.

>>  Admittedly we do things in our own special way (eg the
>> YAPTU template engine), but if we could improve the look-and-feel  
>> that
>> would be great.  None of us have any special powers in the
>> website-design department.  Even better, as part of our new trunk
>> documentation effort, we have moved to a sphinx based documentation
>> system (in the doc subdir of svn trunk).  If you could figure out a
>> way to hook custom CSSandr mpl figures/screenshots or any other  
>> snazzy
>> features into the base sphinx build system, that would be a big help
>> since we hope to jettison the somewhat anachronistic website build
>> system n the not-too-distant-future.
>
> I was intending to write the list and ask if anyone was interested  
> in playing
> with CSS to customize the looks of the new sphinx-based  
> documentation effort.
> I'm really happy to hear that you're interested in helping out, Tony.

Actually, I really like the default look of sphinx-based docs, but I  
wouldn't mind playing around with it. What did you have in mind?

> For the moment, you can build the html documentation by running  
> "make.py html"
> in the doc directory. The latex->pdf docs are experiencing growing  
> pains,
> I'll work on it this morning.


html built fine on my machine; it looks really nice. The pdf docs also  
built without problems. Nice work.

-Tony


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