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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: svn manuals
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:29:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43897C78.9010504@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F2B2835-2140-48DF-9217-9E7854A51DD2@northcoast.com>

David Arnold wrote:
> Hans, Taco, et al,
> 
> I think it would be a good idea (possibly saving you a lot of list  
> answering time) if you put a README file in each manual directory.  This 
> could contain instructions such as:

Good idea.

> 1. Which is the main file to compile.

or just display the (series of) command(s) required to run

> 2. Some font handling instructions. 
> 3. Or, as font setups head to an environment file, maybe alternate  
> environment files could be provided to get a plain vanilla no other  
> fonts other than what is supplied with cont-fnt.zip.

That is the idea behind the \startnotmode[atpragma], but those
definitions are a bit buggy. Of course Hans is never *not*
'atpragma', and up 'til now, he was the only person compiling
the manuals.

> Hopefully, other on this list can come up with other suggestions for  
> the README. I've just named a few that I know will help me.

Two more items are handy if the files get moved around between people:

4. Original (source) location of the manuals
5. Copyright & Contact info

Taco

      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-27  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-26 18:32 David Arnold
2005-11-27  9:29 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]

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