Re: moving toward a 3.0 release

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Sep-2006, David Bateman wrote:

| In any case the major point to address for the non graphic types amongst
| us is documentation and bugs. I'd vote for a complete restructuring of
| the manual as I don't think chapters made up from the help of the
| functions is much use.

Having chapters that only contain the doc strings was never the
intent.  I have always wanted to have the doc strings complemented
with text that includes some overall description of the set of
functions described in a given chapter.  It's just that the current
text doesn't meet that goal very well.

| I think some of the early chapters of the
| existing manual aren't bad, and their is a fair amount of raw material
| for a new section of oct-files with coda + del segna,

Yes, I intend to write something more complete for .oct files.

| In any case John, I think perhaps the first step with the
| documentation is to fix a table of contents and a sketch of the desired
| contents and ask for volonteers to help write the chapters, and in that
| way I believe the document might come together rapidly.

Yes, I just haven't gotten there yet.

jwe