Hey every one,
if we could get some-one to handle piddle sorting
then we can send piddles to that person, then they
would have to go threw them all, to try to get,
the example reference part of the book done
Just like the "Programming perl book" <= thanks Larry!
so that every "Functions" and "Keywords" has a example
that should add on about 200 more pages which
would make a decent book...
maybe some one can make a point to send out a email calling for
Piddles examples, and if we can get a list of the ones we need
and then we can check them off as we get the examples done...
so we need to go threw all the PDL modules and extract
all Keywords, and Functions, and make up a list .....
if every -one want me to do it I will, just let me know where I can
put up a list of the "keywords and Functions" that need examplesÂ
so I can check them off as where getting them done ...
Thanks
-Mark
________________________________
From: Matthew Kenworthy <[email protected]>
To: Tim Haines <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Perldl] PDL Book
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
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