Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-30 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 5/29/06, felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/29/06, Graham Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just thinking about what's happening now in the Python community. A well-known Python developer dumped all of the official documentation into a Wiki / content management system,

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-30 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
But if this is to be the official documentation source, I'm a little concerned about the lack of semantic cues. For example, in the snippet above, the same markup is used for both the example and the sample implementation; and the procedure signature is weakly marked up using whitespace.

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-30 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 5/30/06, Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if this is to be the official documentation source, I'm a little concerned about the lack of semantic cues. [snip] I will certainly add some tags. I absolutely agree with you. I'll probably use a format based in tags (ala

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-30 Thread Kon Lovett
On May 30, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote: But if this is to be the official documentation source, I'm a little concerned about the lack of semantic cues. For example, in the snippet above, the same markup is used for both the example and the sample implementation; and the

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-30 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Dienstag, den 30.05.2006, 11:35 -0500 schrieb Alejandro Forero Cuervo: But if this is to be the official documentation source, I'm a little concerned about the lack of semantic cues. For example, in the snippet above, the same markup is used for both the example and the sample

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-30 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
So why not xml at the end? At least as the canonical format. Because wiki format is easier for humans to work with. I know there are editors for XML, but I don't think they can compare with the ease of use of typing wiki-syntax in one's favorite text editor. Since, as you point out, one can

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-30 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
A smart-link for SRFI docs would be nice, so one could write something like, see ((srfi-1)) for details and get a proper link to the official SRFI doc. Good idea. :-) svnwiki supports user-defined (wiki-specific) linktypes. I added one for the SRFI documents: [[srfi:40]] gets expanded to

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 5/29/06, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a small observation -- the propensity for long, complicated URL's isn't a win. Typing the full www.call/cc.org is a pain; the galinha site is also not something I can memorize, and the same goes for the united freaks site. You could always use

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
I now we're living in the age of delicious, but typing a good URL is always the fastest. No, local bookmarks don't cut it -- there's already too many of them. Maybe it's just me, but I'd love shorter, memorable URL's. Dan, I'm think if you buy us some shorter, memorable, domains, the admins

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
Now, I have absolutely no problem with this. There is just one catch: I don't want to maintain two versions of the manual, and we definitely need something that can be installed locally. Personally, I would suggest that we use http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/coop, since it's internal format can

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 5/29/06, Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I have absolutely no problem with this. There is just one catch: I don't want to maintain two versions of the manual, and we definitely need something that can be installed locally. Personally, I would suggest that we use

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Kon Lovett
On May 29, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote: I don't think it would make much of a difference, though (which is why I'm not buying them myself). call/cc would make a difference w/ search engines. How so? Lots of people searching call/cc instead of

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
I don't think it would make much of a difference, though (which is why I'm not buying them myself). call/cc would make a difference w/ search engines. How so? Lots of people searching call/cc instead of call-with-current-continuation, is that what you mean? Yes. I believe that of all

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-29 Thread Alex Shinn
At Mon, 29 May 2006 03:12:06 -0700 (PDT), Dan wrote: Just a small observation -- the propensity for long, complicated URL's isn't a win. Typing the full www.call/cc.org is a pain; the galinha site is also not something I can memorize, and the same goes for the united freaks site. I like

Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-28 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 5/28/06, felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/28/06, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:31:14PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: Adding a quote in front of the define doesn't work either as that expands to (quote (define with-x #t)) Try '...' (one

Re: Documentation (was Re: [Chicken-users] How to use prelude?)

2006-05-28 Thread felix winkelmann
On 5/29/06, Graham Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just thinking about what's happening now in the Python community. A well-known Python developer dumped all of the official documentation into a Wiki / content management system, and the community is busy filling in gaps, and adding new