[LispM-Hackers] Explorer Documentation

[James A. Crippen]

Carl Shapiro <cshapiro@panix.com> writes:

>    From: james@unlambda.com (James A. Crippen)
>    Date: 08 Oct 2001 22:39:53 -0800
> 
>    I'm not making this a wholesale effort, but one that will proceed
>    gradually.  I can't find an easy way to write a program to
>    automatically convert the VISIDOC format because that format uses a
>    lot of in-band signalling that is hard to separate from running text.
>    IMHO Concordia/DocEx conversion would be a *much* easier task.
> 
> The NSAGE format that the Symbolics documentation is formatted in can
> be easily converted to Scribe through a small program that ships with
> Genera.
> 
> Out of curiosity, it seems that you are trying for quick and dirty,
> why bother with TeX?  Why not just use HTML?

Well, I'm doing quick and dirty right now but I intend to keep the results
around for a while.  Hopefully I'll come up with a program to generate
the TeX.  When the process is automated it might as well be TeX.

And my hope is that when I've got the whole thing done I can print out
a nice thick set of manuals.  I doubt anyone will be changing the
Explorer manuals any time soon...

I was also thinking of how difficult it would be to OCR-convert the
SSDN into ASCII and thence TeX.  The PDF is a bit unwieldy due to its
size.

'james
(tex-bigot-p) => T :^]

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