[latexrefman-discuss] latexrefman / ltxref.org

[Vincent Belaïche]

Dear Patrick,

Just a few questions to clarify your needs/objectives:

- Is your objective to provide a short description (synopsis) for each
  command, or do you want to make a reference manual (ie exhaustive and
  factual description) ?

- If you don't use Texinfo to make your site, is that just because you
  don't know enough Texinfo, otherwise what limitations in Texinfo made
  you discard it as the language supporting content production ?

- What means do you use to develop your site, do you directly write HTML
  code plus some javascript and CSS to make it more interactive and look
  nicer ?


   Vincent.

Le 11/05/2016 00:03, Karl Berry a écrit :
>     OK. We could modify the texi file so that it is written like this:
>
> I strongly disagree with this continuing proliferation of macros =
> obfuscation of our source, and, more importantly, don't think it would
> help Patrick anyway.  Optional/non-optional is a minor point.  The
> crucial point is that he is coming up with a single sentence to describe
> features, and it would not make sense for us to try to write the exact
> sentence he wants in our manual.  It's a different purpose.
>
> Patrick, here's an idea: your site could have a link for each command to
> the corresponding node in our manual.  You could either keep (and
> update) a copy locally or, perhaps preferably, just link to our online
> version.  Similarly, we will mention your site in our text, etc.
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
> P.S. Section title: "Document classes", not "Documentclasses".