Re: [Caml-list] Re: LLC book [was: Questions]
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Richard Jones r...@annexia.org wrote: Decide on a format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook - check I have written one open source book, and participated in another, and DocBook was always a barrier of entrance for most potential contributors. These days I'd rather go for something like the asciidoc format, which can also be converted to DocBook. Having DocBook as an intermediate format is very handy, because it is so easy to customize XHTML and XSL-FO output with XSLT. Take care, Daniel ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
Re: [Caml-list] Re: LLC book [was: Questions]
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Richard Jones r...@annexia.org wrote: Decide on a format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook - check I have written one open source book, and participated in another, and DocBook was always a barrier of entrance for most potential contributors. These days I'd rather go for something like the asciidoc format, which can also be converted to DocBook. Having DocBook as an intermediate format is very handy, because it is so easy to customize XHTML and XSL-FO output with XSLT. Take care, Daniel ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
Re: [Caml-list] Re: LLC book [was: Questions]
--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Alp Mestan a...@mestan.fr wrote: I think it would be a better effort to start a new work, even if harder. OCaml's has known some evolutions, there are many key projects (Extlib, Core, Batteries, ...) so it would be nice to throw most of today's OCaml in an entirely new book. Moreover, there wouldn't be any problem with the publisher of LLC. But for such a project there would be the need for a great team of very motivated people. First let me say that while I have been a professional programmer for over twenty years, have used many languages, and have have been playing with ocaml for several years, I am no expert on ocaml (the only language I claim to be expert in is C++). Nor do I have much experience writing, and, like many Americans, I am monolingual. Having said that, I currently have some free time time and would be willing to offer my assistance to this project. It would give me the opportunity to hone my writing and ocaml skills, and I believe as an experienced professional programmer (I have worked in government, military, finance, medicine, aviation, and research) and ocaml newbie I could bring a useful perspective to the project. I hope I can be of service, -EdK Ed Keith e_...@yahoo.com Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
Re: [Caml-list] Re: LLC book [was: Questions]
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Richard Jones r...@annexia.org wrote: It doesn't take a huge amount to set this up (encouraging people to write the words is quite another matter). Source control: http://git.ocamlcore.org/ - check Decide on a format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook - check License: http://creativecommons.org/ CC-BY-SA - check Mailing list for editorial review of submissions: http://ocamlcore.org/ - check Outline and subject areas: - Introduction to the language - Language core - Libraries - Camlp4 - ... Decide who will be in charge of each area ... And even more important, who would like to participate to this project ? ;-) -- Alp Mestan ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
Re: [Caml-list] Re: LLC book [was: Questions]
You could start with this: http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Objective_Caml . I have only had the time to write about 3 chapters (in French) but it could serve as a base. Oh, and the license and source control are mostly solved by the use of Wikibooks. Cheers, David ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
