On 5/4/2010 9:30 AM, Matthew Kenworthy wrote: > > 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.
I have converted the "PDL---Scientific Programming in Perl" to LyX and updated it for PDL-2.4.3. The LyX-ificaion makes it much easier to work with instead of the original LaTeX. The book is actually one of the better introductions to using PDL. I would like to clean it up and put it online but getting PDL working has taken a higher priority on my time. I did go through the examples and text to update from slice to NiceSlice and also to make sure the examples would work---cut-n-pasted from the text. The other book Beggining PDL [sic] was not as helpful for me learning PDL. > 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. An on-line reference version would be great. I do like having a paper/browsable/open on your desk copy... My thought was to revisit the Scientific Programming book once a core PDL was ported to win32. --Chris > 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 _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
