Dear all, I have done some cosmetics to MathAction, primarily to address the complaint that it's FrontPage was too loaded.
Unfortunately, my time is very limited and even with regard to Axiom, I think it is better spent in writing packages and fixing bugs. However, I feel that MathAction is very important. If you google for axiom it is the 5th hit, and it's usage statistics are quite impressive. So, what's the problem? If you look at MathAction, it is easily summarized: there is too much text. A lot is duplicated, and some things are difficult to find. So here are some small projects anyone can do: * Merge SummerOfCode and WishList * Reorganize the pages about Programming in Axiom Using Aldor for Axiom Debugging Axiom Development ... in a sensible way. * Walk through the contents of MathAction and see which things belong together and should be regrouped. If you embark on any of these projects, it may make sense to first create a (hierarchy of) SandBox page(s) containing the newly organized content (partially probably copied and pasted...), post a message on axiom-developer, and wait for: go ahead! I personally prefer StructuredText Markup. In future, everything should be coded as pamphlets, but we are not there yet. (If you are interested in *that* issue, connect yourself with Ralf Hemmecke who designed a wonderful Aldor documentation format, which will hopefully replace our pamphlet format in near future Kai Kaminski who is in charge of the Axiom User Interface, thereby hopefully writing the successor to HyperDoc, thereby converting the .ht pages to the above mentioned format in near future jsMath & tex4ht which will probably enable proper rendering of the pamphlet successor on Mathaction. Thanks, Martin Bill, how large is the text-only content of MathAction currently (i.e., withouth axiom--main-test-1, and similar stuff)? If it is not too big, could you send it to me tarred and zipped? _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer