Re: [Texmacs-dev] Documentation on web

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, David Allouche wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:42:46PM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > > I have saw the url
> > >
> > > http://www.texmacs.org/tmdoc/index.es.html
> > >
> > > Is nice, but please note the acent characters (á, é, í, ó, ú) are not
> > > displayed properly (same I think for "ñ").
> >
> > It is David's job to get the encodings right.
> > He should be working on that.
>
> No, I am not. At the moment I should be working on the symbol<->unicode
> translation tables. This is not the first time you make an incorrect
> statement about the work I am doing, usually I just let it pass by so I
> can work more and spend less time on public flames.
>
> I'd like if you would refrain from making public statements about what
> "I should be working on" while the planning discussions are private. If
> you want more openeness (and I completely agree with that) then the
> planning discussions should be public too.

If you prefer, I will just omit the "should" from my phrases.
Nevertheless, you are responsible for the Html encoding stuff,
so it is certainly a good idea to redirect users/developers
to you for this kind of things. On the other hand, I am not
interested in public flame wars, so the remainder of this kind
of conversations should remain private.

> And if you want me to work on specific issues in priority this has to be
> put clearly in the planning, like "this week I would like you to use
> entities when exporting non-ASCII symbols to HTML".

Maintaining code which you have written or rewritten is part of your job.
In the original TeXmacs -> Html converter, as bad as it was,
accented characters worked.