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[gtk-list] Re: Documenting GTK

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Main)
Sun Jul 20 00:26:43 1997

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 21:27:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ian Main <slow@intergate.bc.ca>
To: Jay Painter <jay@a42.com>
cc: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970719130204.23741A-100000@cascadia.a42.com>
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On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Jay Painter wrote:

> I have been thinking about writing a set of CGI scripts which would allow
> us to document GTK calls on the web.  The general idea is that there would
> be a web page that you could search for a gtk function on, then edit and
> submit the documentation for the call right there.  The changes/additions
> would appear immeadiately on the web site.
> 
> My hope is that this would take less coordination than the tekinfo
> documents, and would make it more reasonable for people to contribute
> small amounts of documentation.
> 
> Comments?

I think this is a great idea.  I saw another post that it should be done
in texinfo, but I have nothing against plain text (and have never used
texinfo).  I will try to contribute regardless though, and this
would make it easy for everyone to do their part. 

Ian

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