From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: o'reilly zsh book? MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Bruce Stephens Date: 26 Jan 1999 10:33:30 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailing-List: 2049 Sweth Chandramouli writes: > all of the basic documentation is really already there, although > often in very cryptic langauge; even so, as you pointed out earlier, > what is really needed is good tutorial info. part and parcel with > good examples and tutorials, however, is having a way for someone > who wants to do something to easily find it, and that's where i > think that having the docs done professionally would be of greatest > use: making a really good index. i'd guess that, all told, about a > third of the time spent making a really useful set of documentation > on zsh would involve just building a good index and > cross-referencing everything; a commercial publisher would be far > far better at doing something like that than, say, i would. Sure. And having the whole lot nicely bound in a book is worthwhile. Then I can read it on the bus, or something. (Whenever I read the zsh documentation, I find half a dozen things I never knew existed, and generally a couple of things that I actually want to use.) > the money isn't much of an issue anyway; Well, no. I was half-joking. I'd be a little surprised if anybody agreed to publish the book, to be honest.