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Re: [Bug-gsl] Syntax highlighting for the site
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Patrick Alken |
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Re: [Bug-gsl] Syntax highlighting for the site |
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Sun, 26 Feb 2017 07:18:41 -0700 |
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Ok thanks I will take a look at it
On 02/25/2017 12:30 PM, Liam Healy wrote:
> Sphinx http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ is quite nice, has very
> good web support, and seems to be widely used now (e.g., the Linux
> kernel is moving over to it).
>
> Liam
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Patrick Alken <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> The GSL manual is written in texinfo, which is nice since it
> allows us to easily make versions in html,ps,pdf,ascii and a few
> other formats from the same master file. Unfortunately as you note
> the html version isn't very advanced. I'd be open to explore
> converting the manual to some other system, but I don't know of
> any other documentation system which has all the capabilities of
> texinfo and also has better html support.
>
> Patrick
>
>
> On 02/22/2017 04:27 AM, Hastur Hastur wrote:
>
> Not real a bug, but an exigency nowadays.
>
> What about to introduce on the site some sort of syntax
> highlighting,
> e.g. https://highlightjs.org/ or better ?
>
>
> To make as much as possible pleasing and attractive the GNU
> world to the
> most wide audience we can.
>
> Nowadays each good IDE allows folding, syntax highlighting and
> online
> help...
>
> meanwhile the *look* of those pages is so vintage (note I
> belong to that
> generation).
>
>
> :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hastur
>
>
> ps> I found no other e-mail address on the manual page
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/>
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