>> 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.
Please send me a copy of the LyX files! I'm very familiar with LyX, so I can use it probably in a better form than the original latex. I think I can convert most of the document automatically to POD from LaTeX, and then try to kludge the images/figures from the reamining text. >From that, there are exporters for POD->HTML and for POD->Wiki pages. I'd then suggest that a paper copy is made by rolling POD->HTML->PDF versions together. Admittedly, this is a bass-ackwards of doing things, but what this will do is this: 1) Provide a 'single base' for the PDL documentation from which you can build the rest 2) We can export POD to Wiki and to HTML for online browsing 3) Be ready for Padre if we go that far. I think it's worth a go on the PDL Science book as a demonstrator, then think about what namespace to put it in. Matt -- Matthew Kenworthy / Assistant Professor / Leiden Observatory Niels Bohrweg 2 (#463) / P.O. Box 9513 / 2300 RA Leiden / NL _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
