On 25 February 2012 16:16, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Philip, > >> I downloaded the .tgz of the tutorial pages >> >> http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/archive/tutorial.tar.gz >> >> It seems to be a bit dated. *smiles* So someday when you run >> out of other things to do, (hah!) it could be nice to have a more >> up-to-date tarball of the tutorial for off-line users. > > Point taken, it's very outdated. But then who is an "off-line user" > these days? Even the on-line tutorial gets outdated, and parts > of it need to be re-written where I have just patched it up with > new information. Tutorials are useful enough, though, to be > worthwhile to maintain even though they can be a huge time sink. > I'll see what I can do. . .
I am working on an asciidoc version of the tutorials for my own purpose. Not that I am not offline, but it is more a test to see if I can manage to duplicate web work into asciidoc. Point is that asciidoc can create html and pdf and epub and whatnot from the same text input file. I have been using asciidoc for a couple of years now, and I was looking for something substantial to rewrite. My choice was xcircuit, and I started with the tutorials. If Tim think it is feasible, then the tutorial web-page could be generated from the asciidoc input page. No need to write html anymore, and the results are nice, both in a webbrowser and on pdf with dblatex. I still have tutorial 1 to finish (started with 3), and then we could start fixing the typos or missing parts of the tutorial. Maybe Tim put the asciidoc sources on git so that we can post patches via email when we find issues in the docs. -- Svenn _______________________________________________ Xcircuit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.opencircuitdesign.com/mailman/listinfo/xcircuit-dev
