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I would be willing to do some actual editing if Doug is
willing to coordinate the effort.
Stan
J. Stanley Warford
Professor of Computer Science
Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA 90263
Stan.Warford{([at]})nowhere.xy
310-506-4332
On Mar 28, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Douglas G. Danforth wrote:
> Folks,
> Subject: BlackBox documentation
>
> Since no one (yet) has objected to Rex Couture's suggestion that I
> 'lead the effort' for developing extended BlackBox documentation, I
> have the following suggestion.
>
> Let's call the extended documention the 'CookBook'. This choice is
> based on the (seeming) desire to keep topics short and concise with an
> introduction and a few examples for each topic.
>
> The CookBook can also be viewed as a 'Journal' where individuals
> submit articles for 'publication'. I suggest that the submission be
> in .odc format (see below).
>
> The CookBook would reside on Helmut's Component Pascal Collections
> (CPC) and I will need Helmut to help setup his first page with a
> leading entry to the HTML(and .odc) based CookBook. Helmut?
>
> I can act as the initial editor of the articles but ask that a second
> editor step forth so that the effort can be shared. I would hope that
> everyone of us would eventually act as editor on a rotating basis.
>
> Internal vs external
> Using HTML as the medium of publication for the CookBook allows wide
> access to this documentation. It also means that the principle of
> 'one place only' is violated when it is assumed that the internal
> version of the CookBook is in .odc and the external is in HTML.
> Hopefully the process of converting from .odc to .html can be
> automated as much as possible (graphics, executable code?) (Michael
> Franz's slim binaries,
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/SlimBinaries.html, keeps occuring to me
> when I think of web based executables in an Oberon environment as
> opposed to Java).
>
> Let me know your thoughts concerning 'CookBook'.
>
> -Doug
>
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