Dear Ross:
You are right, there are two possible directions under consideration. One
way is, just as you said, to be fully compatible with normal web pages. The
other way is to be a context help framework for my amber-oriented project
like chm help in win32 application or interactive help in InsightII or
Sybyl. To keep these flexiblities, I chose to use XHTML. However, the down
side is that some browsers (especially for IE) may unhappy to see it. If
converted to HTML, it needs one or two weeks to resolve all major
incompatible issues, particularly MathML tag.
As for the works, I did port it line by line from pdf file. Since at the
begining I did not have the troff src. It took too much times. :-( When I
got the source file, I've test some existing tools along with the script in
CVS and found they were either useless or too difficult to convert the
results to XHTML. If the source is written in LaTeX, things would be easier
to handle. Whatsoever, it is wise to unify the page style for all sections
in the future and ease the burden for automatic parser.
Best regards
qxb
On 5/27/06, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Xeubin,
>
> This looks great. I like the look and feel. It is interesting to think of
> ways this could be extended. E.g. I guess the links to references could be
> made active so that clicking on a reference (with the correct doi tag) would
> load up the paper. There are some neat things one could imagine as well,
> such as moving images etc. That is for the future though.
>
> All in all though it looks great. One question I have though concerns how
> much work is involved to create this. I guess you are doing it manually at
> the moment. I wonder if there would be some way to write a script to perhaps
> pass the troff script that the amber manual is written in. This could
> automate a good chunk of the work. Off hand though I don't know how easy or
> hard this might be to do.
>
> All the best
> Ross
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> *From:* owner-amber-developers.scripps.edu [mailto:
> owner-amber-developers.scripps.edu] *On Behalf Of *Xuebin Qiao
> *Sent:* Friday, May 26, 2006 11:02
> *To:* amber-developers.scripps.edu
> *Subject:* Re: amber-developers: About amber8 help for mozilla-based
> browser.
>
> Dear dac:
>
> Thanks for your quick response. It's my pleasure to make contribution back
> to amber community.
>
> I test the link and find that this method is not very convenient for end
> user to install the addon package. Could you please insert the code snippet
> listed in attachment file. So it may give better user expericence.
>
> BTW, I'm starting to port amber9 manual in my spare time.
>
> best regards
>
> qxb
>
> On 5/27/06, David A. Case < case.scripps.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 26, 2006, Xuebin Qiao wrote:
> > >
> > > Now, my amber8 help add-on for mozilla-based browsers has been
> > completed and
> > > is ready for review.
> > >
> > > I would like to know whether amber site could offer me any permanent
> > space
> > > to host the install package and future updates.
> >
> > I have added this to the Amber web site (look under "Amber 8 Manual")
> >
> > Thanks for providing this!
> >
> > ....dac
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> ... there have been two really clean,
> consistent models of programming so far:
> the C model and the Lisp model.
> These two seem points of high ground,
> with swampy lowlands between them.
>
> --Paul Graham
>
--
... there have been two really clean,
consistent models of programming so far:
the C model and the Lisp model.
These two seem points of high ground,
with swampy lowlands between them.
--Paul Graham
Received on Fri May 26 2006 - 21:05:28 PDT
