[XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative - a website

[David Perry]

On 9/12/2010 5:59 AM, Michiel Kamermans wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've put up a wiki with a highly tentative structure on
> http://wiki.xelatex.org/doku.php - sadly xetex.org is taken by some
> domain hiking service so there's no obvious xetex.org counterpart to be
> had...

Mike,

Thanks for taking the initiative on this.  It's a very good start.

I was going to make the suggestions about not duplicating existing 
documentation and suggesting the best packages when there is more than 
one, but Will beat me to it.  I'd suggest having a paragraph about using 
CTAN and pointing out that usually the info about actually using the 
package is in the front; people can ignore the real technical stuff at 
the end.

Here's one more suggestion:  Would it be useful to designate some parts 
of the text as less important for beginners?  For instance, some people 
might want to know more about the history of TeX and the relations among 
the various versions, while others might get impatient and just want to 
see how to start their first document.  One short paragraph would 
provide the essentials and another longer one could give more 
background.  Right now we could just mark the less important stuff with 
a phrase like <less important>; later that could be handled 
typographically (smaller size, indented, special symbol, whatever).

David