Hi Tim, Good to hear from you and that you have material to add - I helped pull the recent version of the PDL book together.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: > I once heard tell that someone (David, maybe?) had a LyX version of the > book. Is that under source control somewhere? I have some examples from a > PDL lecture series I gave that I would like to add to the intro chapters. The PDL Book wrapped up several incomplete different PDL documentation projects into this most recent version. The book has been converted into Perl's native POD (Plain Old Documentation), which obviously lacks the finesse of LaTeX and LyX, but this was a deliberate decision by me, because the LyX book hadn't been updated in many years and was unfinished - people hadn't contributed because it required a working version of LyX which (I believe) is a barrier to new people contributing documentation. Anyone can immediately start writing POD and it can have embedded images, generate reasonable HTML and the PDF version of the book, and with proper tagging, it could be rolled into the current PDL distribution and act as an online local reference. The one major barrier for this is that it does significantly bulk up what is a very trim PDL source code distribution. Anyway, the short version is that if you could format your presentation in POD, that would be really great! Cheers, 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
