> "Fred" == Fred L Drake, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Fred> On Thursday 22 December 2005 13:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Who is asking this of potential contributors? I know you, Aahz
>> and I have repeatedly told people on c.l.py that LaTeX
>> knowledge is not necessary.
On Thursday 22 December 2005 13:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Who is asking this of potential contributors? I know you, Aahz and I have
> repeatedly told people on c.l.py that LaTeX knowledge is not necessary.
> Plain text is okay. What do we need to do to squash this meme?
As Andrew noted,
On Thursday 22 December 2005 13:39, Facundo Batista wrote:
> Very interesting. What I don't know here is how to submit patches...
"Patches" certainly isn't the right word for changes not described as source
diffs. I cleaned up some text about that on python.org earlier.
> I mean, if they were
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:23:03PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Who is asking this of potential contributors? I know you, Aahz and I have
> repeatedly told people on c.l.py that LaTeX knowledge is not necessary.
One comment on a bug to this effect was found. I don't think there's
a point in
2005/12/22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Tony & other python-dev summarizers (and maybe Cameron Laird for the c.l.py
> summaries): please make a note of this in your next summary. The
> I-can't-contribute-because-I-don't-know-LaTeX notion has to die, die, die.
Very interesting. What
Fred> Some people are getting asked to convert their documentation
Fred> contributions to LaTeX themselves...
Who is asking this of potential contributors? I know you, Aahz and I have
repeatedly told people on c.l.py that LaTeX knowledge is not necessary.
Plain text is okay. What do we
On Thursday 22 December 2005 11:44, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> I've
> generally stated that I'm willing to perform conversion, making plain text
> / ReST completely acceptable for documentation contributions. Others have
> commonly converted plain text to LaTeX as well.
I've started a list o
Just a quick note based on some of the discussion on the Doc-SIG list:
Some people are getting asked to convert their documentation contributions to
LaTeX themselves, and that *is* a barrier to contribution. I've generally
stated that I'm willing to perform conversion, making plain text / ReST
