Re: [dealii-developers] Promoting developer version documentation in search engines and user forum posts

2016-12-02 Thread Denis Davydov
> > Prohibiting indexing requires that we change all html files of older versions > (using one of the meta tags at the top of an HTML file), or placing a > robots.txt file into these directories. That requires access to the web I think you can forbid indexing robots from going into directorie

Re: [dealii-developers] Promoting developer version documentation in search engines and user forum posts

2016-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Bangerth
On 12/01/2016 03:56 PM, Jean-Paul Pelteret wrote: This leads me to wonder whether would it be useful (or even possible) to promote the developer version of the documentation in search engine results in preference to the older versions? I think that's a valid question. The way I would probably d

Re: [dealii-developers] Promoting developer version documentation in search engines and user forum posts

2016-12-02 Thread Jean-Paul Pelteret
Hi Bruno, That makes sense, and is another tick for the "use the latest release" column :-) Thanks, J-P -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: [dealii-developers] Promoting developer version documentation in search engines and user forum posts

2016-12-02 Thread Jean-Paul Pelteret
Hi Toby, I still use grep locally for this, although I also use the doxygen search > tool too. > Thats a good idea, if you know exactly what phrase you're looking for. Sometimes I can't think of the correct term and need to paraphrase and thats why a search engine is more useful for this purpo

Re: [dealii-developers] Promoting developer version documentation in search engines and user forum posts

2016-12-02 Thread Bruno Turcksin
Jean-Paul, 2016-12-01 17:56 GMT-05:00 Jean-Paul Pelteret : > When I answer posts on the forum I try my best to add links to relevant > portions of the documentation. > I tend to choose (when I remember to do so) those from the developer page > because I anticipate that these links would exist in p

Re: [dealii-developers] Promoting developer version documentation in search engines and user forum posts

2016-12-02 Thread Tobi Young
> As sometimes its easier to search for a key phrase than a specific namespace/class/function, I preferentially use Google as opposed to the search bar in the Doxygen docs. I still use grep locally for this, although I also use the doxygen search tool too. > This leads me to wonder whether would

[dealii-developers] Promoting developer version documentation in search engines and user forum posts

2016-12-01 Thread Jean-Paul Pelteret
Dear all, When I answer posts on the forum I try my best to add links to relevant portions of the documentation. I tend to choose (when I remember to do so) those from the developer page because I anticipate that these links would exist in perpetuity as we move to version 9 and beyond. As somet