Hello,
thanks for doing this Ben! +1 for me too. Like others, I don't like
editing XML by hand. As to which other format to use, I trust your
judgement---I've used a bunch of them, and in my mind they are all fairly
similar, and I always have to look up how exactly things work anyway, so
whate
I really like the idea of having a readable raw format that renders nice.
Editing
is awful, yes, but we don't have to do it that often. But what matters much more
to me, and in fact most GHC users, is searchability. I don't want to enter the
user's guide via Google, and grepping through HTML is no
The GHC docs in general could use some love. The navigation isn't that nice.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:32 AM, wrote:
> You might consider the Racket documentation ecosystem:
>
> http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/scribble/index.html
>
> or
>
> http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/polle
You might consider the Racket documentation ecosystem:
http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/scribble/index.html
or
http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/
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Ben Gamari writes:
> Hello all!
>
I have collected the details of this proposal into a Wiki page[1]. Feel
free to leave thoughts there as well as this thread.
Cheers,
- Ben
[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/UsersGuide/MoveFromDocBook
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I know nothing about these different formats. But I dislike what we have now,
and I have confidence that you *do* know something about these formats. So I'm
very happy to take your recommendation on this.
+1
Thanks!
Richard
On Sep 23, 2015, at 4:02 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> Las
Dear Haskell Community,
In short, it's time to assemble a new Haskell Prime language
committee. Please refer to the CfN at
https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2015-September/003936.html
for more details.
Cheers,
hvr
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Hello all!
Last year there was a brief thread [1] on this list discussing the
choice of markup language used for GHC's users guide. At this point
DocBook is showing signs of age,
* The format's documentation is ancient and isn't terribly approachable.
* Writing XML by hand is a terrible, ter
