Documentation patches

[Chris Rees]

Oops... I'll fix that when I'm back. Do you want me to finish it before you
stick it in so I'm not bugging you with patches?

Chris

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Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do
threading.
On 24 Dec 2010 15:44, "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> On 12/24/10 9:52 AM, Chris Rees wrote:
>> On 23 December 2010 18:07, Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 06:07:13PM +0000, Chris Rees thus spake:
>>>>
>>>> On 23 December 2010 17:28, Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 03:44:49PM +0000, Chris Rees thus spake:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The README in HEAD is the master doc. From there, I port content
(not
>>>>>>> necessarily formatting) to README.html. If you provide diffs to the
>>>>>>> README, I'll see they are incorporated into README.html.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That said, if you wanted to automate this by converting the
>>>>>>> documentation to SGML or XML that would be great!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That was my original idea, I'll work on that for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Original meaning move it to SGML?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah; I figure that programmers' time could be better spent than
>>>> hand-merging the HTML doc and ASCII doc.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure they don't enjoy it!
>>>>
>>>> I won't make it too complicated; it's only a fairly short document,
>>>> but I've stolen the FreeBSD Handbook DTDs to make it look like that;
>>>> the README already does.
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>
>>> You beat me to it :)
>>> I've done my fair share of sgml documentation, and even wrote an
article.
>>> When I saw that, I was going to jump all over it.
>>>
>>> Have fun.
>>>
>>> -jgh
>>>
>>
>> Well, I've got this so far:
>>
>> http://www.bayofrum.net/~chris/tinderbox-doc/index.html
>>
>> I'm having to take a break now because... well it's that time of year
again.
>>
>> If anyone wants to have a look at the sources they can get it
>> anonymously from me at
>> :pserver:anonymous at amnesiac.bayofrum.net:/exports/cvsroot
>> tinderbox-doc (no anonymous password)
>
> Looks like we have a permissions problem:
>
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for
> `/exports/cvsroot/CVSROOT' (/exports/cvsroot/CVSROOT/#cvs.history.lock):
> Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to obtain history lock in repository
`/exports/cvsroot'
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for
> `/exports/cvsroot/tinderbox-doc'
> (/exports/cvsroot/tinderbox-doc/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/exports/cvsroot/tinderbox-doc'
> cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
>
>>
>> Not sure if you want to make a module on marcuscom for it yet...
>
> I was going to add it to the tinderweb module once I get the source.
>
> Joe
>
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