Just trying to help. :D I've been trying to use the glossary and index
often so have a vested interest in seeing the glossary/index issues
you've raised resolved. I asked a related question on the Sphinx-dev
mailing list about a week ago. No reply yet so I thought I'd take a
stab at it. I think I b
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:13 PM, taa, Leo Newbie wrote:
> Based on my interpretation of
> http://sphinx.pocoo.org/markup/para.html#glossary
> and the section, "New in version 0.6", the easy part to make this
> happen is to remove the :sorted: flag. Then the hard part is manually
> re-ordering t
About the glossary
Terry>I think it would be more helpful if [the glossary] didn't start
Terry>with all those @ entries - no doubt alphabetical order is
Terry>working against us there.
Edward>Please, let's all be clear that I want this to happen too.
Edward>But I don't know how to do this.
I
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:54 PM, ne1uno wrote:
> let me hasten to add, I am a strong believer in the insights
> that I assume led to the creation of the original tangle/untangle
> concepts, that is
> keeping the docs with the code, now seen in a lighter form in doxygen,
> javadoc, eudoc and othe
On Aug 6, 9:05 pm, "Edward K. Ream" wrote:
> The great collapse in complexity has taken away almost all the blah,
> blah, blah of LP (Literate programming).
>
> Gone are discussions of noweb, CWEB, LaTeX. Leo still supports these
> languages, but it does so gracefully, without making a big deal a
On Aug 6, 9:05 pm, "Edward K. Ream" wrote:
> On Aug 6, 5:18 pm, "Edward K. Ream" wrote:
>
> > On my bicycle ride today I had a "road to Damascus" moment: It is
> > time to kill @root, or at least send to it the attic, there to be quickly
> > forgotten.
>
> The great collapse in complexity has
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:28 AM, taa, Leo Newbie wrote:
> Terry>I think it would be more helpful if [the glossary] didn't start
> Terry> with all those @ entries - no doubt alphabetical order is
> Terry> working against us there.
>
> +1
Please, let's all be clear that I want this to happen too.
Terry>I think it would be more helpful if [the glossary] didn't start
Terry> with all those @ entries - no doubt alphabetical order is
Terry> working against us there.
+1
As an example, @settings is listed under "S" and not under Symbols --
this is a GOOD thing because as a newbie it's where I w
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote:
> On my bicycle ride today I had a "road to Damascus" moment: It is
> time to kill @root, or at least send to it the attic, there to be
> quickly forgotten.
Thanks for all recent comments. I have yet to hear a peep of protest.
> Furthermore
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote:
> All comments are welcome, but there is any way anyone is going to
> change my mind about this. Leo deserves to lose about half its
> apparent weight.
+1.
Actually removing support from the code (which is somewhat more
controversial than d
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:18:36 -0700 (PDT)
>> "Edward" == "Edward K. Ream" wrote:
Edward> Let me be very clear. I think @root is a huge burden on Leo.
Edward> It more than doubles the apparent complexity of Leo for
Edward> newbies, and offers exactly *nothing* of value to anyone.
+1
Edward> P.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Terry Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:59:31 -0700 (PDT)
> I think it would be more helpful if it didn't start with all those @ entries
> - no doubt alphabetical order is working against us there.
This may be an issue with the standard .css file. I didn't do
> On Aug 6, 7:28 pm, "Edward K. Ream" wrote:
> Take a look now at the new glossary.
> http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/glossary.html
>
uh...ok so you removed "@root"
:)
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:59:31 -0700 (PDT)
"Edward K. Ream" wrote:
> The glossary makes clear, as never before, that learning Leo need not
> be all that hard.
I think it would be more helpful if it didn't start with all those @ entries -
no doubt alphabetical order is working against us there. Th
On Aug 6, 5:18 pm, "Edward K. Ream" wrote:
> On my bicycle ride today I had a "road to Damascus" moment: It is
> time to kill @root, or at least send to it the attic, there to be quickly
> forgotten.
The great collapse in complexity has taken away almost all the blah,
blah, blah of LP (Literate
On Aug 6, 7:28 pm, "Edward K. Ream" wrote:
> A giant weight has just been lifted from all of our shoulders.
Take a look now at the new glossary.
http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/glossary.html
The glossary makes clear, as never before, that learning Leo need not
be all that hard.
Edwar
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote:
> This makes the Index look super. Take a look.
FYI: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/genindex.html
Getting rid of @root and most of LP might be the simplification that
makes many more people be able to get what Leo is all about.
A gi
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Terry Brown wrote:
> On the complexity topic, while I was working on the windows \absolute\path
> problem (which is non-urgently awaiting your input, BTW) I was surprised by
> the number of methods which do similar things to determine the path of an
> @ node. I
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote:
> Without @root, Chapter 4 would be less than half as long and would
> actually be easy to understand :-) As usual, any simplification of
> Chapter 4 would likely lead to further collapses in complexity.
Done on the trunk and on Leo's web sit
--- On Fri, 8/6/10, Edward K. Ream wrote:
> After this Aha, it is obvious that I don't want to use
> @root, think about @root, document @root or test @root.
None of which are sufficient reasons for removing it, of course ;-)
> And I don't want Leo's newbies to do so either.
This might be a s
whatever makes LEO simpler to learn/understand/use/manage/maintain is a good.
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On my bicycle ride today I had a "road to Damascus" moment: It is
time to kill @root, or at least send to it the attic, there to be
quickly forgotten.
I suspect nobody is seriously using @root, because I can tell you that
the docs for @root are at present completely unintelligible.
Furthermore,
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