Re: HTML function reference

[David Bateman]

Soren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi Octave-Forgers (CC: maintainers list)
>
> I've updated my package for generating HTML files from help texts. The
> source is available at
>
> http://hauberg.org/generate_html
>
> The code requires a checkout of Octave that includes the
> reimplementation of the help system as m-files. Using the package I've
> generated HTML files for the Octave manual, and the 'image' and
> 'statistics' packages (these were the ones I happened to have
> installed). See
>
> http://hauberg.org/manual/chapter/preface.html
>
> This is basically how I imagine the function reference will look in the
> future. Some parts of it aren't as nice as the current function
> reference, but I wanted to make it as easy as possible to release
> packages independently (this meant I had to kill the alphabetical list
> of functions, which is a shame).
>
> Do you have any thoughts on this?
>
> Soren
>
> P.S. I'm CC'ing the maintainers list as I think we should have an
> improved online manual at www.octave.org. The code in my package should
> be able to provide this.
>
>
>   
I'm not sure I like the way the manual is displayed as one of the side 
menus  of the function reference. Sure have a side menu for the manual 
on the web site, but a different one from the function reference and 
then readd the alphabetical tab to the side menu. Also menu you select 
an item from the packages tab of the side mene, the tab shouldn't change 
back to the manual tab..

Cheers
David

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