To add gasoline/petrol to the fire, I'll suggest something further:

I think treating the PODs as the 'ground truth' documents from which
all other formats are generated could be the way to go. So I suggest
this:

Remove the half-completed PDL books from the wiki pages completely.

They're a great attempt, but they were written with herculean effort
before the days of wikis, usually based as latex documents with the
included figures.

The books contain tons of great information, but it can be a slog
wandering through the three books and picking out where, for example,
that pdim() function was defined. I'd be willing to go through the PDL
books, pull out the great examples and POD ify them, so that the PODs
can be wikified automatically.

My only question would be how to deal with the images in the books -
is there a suitable way to link the images in the POD text so that
they are automatically added into wikified and html'ed pages?

Just a thought....

Matt


-- 
Matthew Kenworthy / Assistant Professor / Leiden Observatory
Niels Bohrweg 2 (#463) / P.O. Box 9513 / 2300 RA Leiden / NL

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