Here's a quick list I just compiled of what all the new pure-data.org could have:
"getting help" docs tutorials FAQ dev section howto join SF CVS various devs and their projects downloads pd packages pd-externals, etc. from SF CVS other pd packages/externals forums the pd-list in forums format could be helpful to people who are hesitant to subscribe to the list. blog a good outlet for related news, events postings, etc. wiki site for building local user group pages. patch exchange
Now there is definitely some overlap, so I think we need at least to
have a vague definition of what each section is supposed to do rather
than just put up everything and the kitchen sink just because we can.
That would lead to pure-data.org becoming just as fragmented as the
current layout across many sites.
Did I miss anything?
.hc
On Thu, 15 May 2003 18:48:00 -0400 Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
Here's a quick list I just compiled of what all the new pure-data.org could have:
"getting help" docs tutorials FAQ dev section howto join SF CVS various devs and their projects downloads pd packages pd-externals, etc. from SF CVS other pd packages/externals forums the pd-list in forums format could be helpful to people who are hesitant to subscribe to the list. blog a good outlet for related news, events postings, etc. wiki site for building local user group pages. patch exchange
Now there is definitely some overlap, so I think we need at least to have a vague definition of what each section is supposed to do rather than just put up everything and the kitchen sink just because we can. That would lead to pure-data.org becoming just as fragmented as the current layout across many sites.
Did I miss anything?
front page a one page description of what Pd actually is, for the layman.
Wouldn't it be nice if when people say to you "What's pure data?" you could say "Have a look at pure-data.org where there's a concise description on the front page."
Kind Regards,
Chris. _________________________________ chris@mccormick.cx http://www.mccormick.cx http://www.sciencegirlrecords.com
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Here's a quick list I just compiled of what all the new pure-data.org could have:
"getting help" docs tutorials FAQ
(sorry to bang on about a different webtech, again)
seems to me that PD docs could benefit hugely from having dynamically-generated PDF, Printable and XML versions, like http://xml.apache.org/forrest/index.html
I do realise we are now talking about Plone, or webware, etc. but I think being able to outsource/print and get pdfs of our docs will become useful in the future. Any way to do this in the frameworks we've been talking about?
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David Casal e: d.casal@uea.ac.uk w: ariada.uea.ac.uk/~dcasal p: (+44) 07803 173 959
David Casal said this at Fri, 16 May 2003 10:16:10 +0100:
seems to me that PD docs could benefit hugely from having dynamically-generated PDF, Printable and XML versions, like http://xml.apache.org/forrest/index.html
If I've learned something in my work with MPEG-7 and standardisation, it's to concentrate on the underlying representation, and not necessarily the tool to do things with.
So I say, concentrate on a good XML format for the underlying material, and everything else will follow. In that case, I could apply some of my work with ConTeXt to take the XML and do some serious typesetting.
cheers, adam
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Adam Lindsay wrote:
So I say, concentrate on a good XML format for the underlying material, and everything else will follow. In that case, I could apply some of my work with ConTeXt to take the XML and do some serious typesetting.
+1 !
Can you elucidate (maybe OT, offlist) on your work with ConTeXt?
Reason I propose the forrest 'way' is the available DTD's (though I wish for Schemas) for DocBook, FAQ, TODO's etc. which it already has available for project documentation.
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David Casal e: d.casal@uea.ac.uk w: ariada.uea.ac.uk/~dcasal p: (+44) 07803 173 959
Hallo, David Casal hat gesagt: // David Casal wrote:
seems to me that PD docs could benefit hugely from having dynamically-generated PDF, Printable and XML versions, like http://xml.apache.org/forrest/index.html
I do realise we are now talking about Plone, or webware, etc. but I think being able to outsource/print and get pdfs of our docs will become useful in the future. Any way to do this in the frameworks we've been talking about?
I don't know Plone enough, but the structured text format, I wrote about earlier, is part of Zope. You can transform ST into XML, HTML, Latex, PDF, ...
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I don't know Plone enough, but the structured text format, I wrote about earlier, is part of Zope. You can transform ST into XML, HTML, Latex, PDF, ...
Ah! Ok then, nice. Gonna have to dive into Zope, I guess.
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David Casal e: d.casal@uea.ac.uk w: ariada.uea.ac.uk/~dcasal p: (+44) 07803 173 959
David Casal writes:
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Here's a quick list I just compiled of what all the new pure-data.org could have:
"getting help" docs tutorials FAQ
(sorry to bang on about a different webtech, again)
seems to me that PD docs could benefit hugely from having dynamically-generated PDF, Printable and XML versions, like http://xml.apache.org/forrest/index.html
I do realise we are now talking about Plone, or webware, etc. but I think being able to outsource/print and get pdfs of our docs will become useful in the future. Any way to do this in the frameworks we've been talking about?
thats true we use htmldoc from HTML-sources and docbook, where there is an Interface on the Plone. So Poeple who writes XML/Docbook could use the server to render PDFs and HTML. anyhow there is just an XML-Parser, wich also handles OpenOffice Documents as XML-Source, but I think many people just write structered text or html or tex, which I want to be supported, anyhow I have to test these. (We need this for our Lessons).
mfg winfried
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