From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Call for documentation of contributed packages
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:27:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8C45E424-0599-4387-8C59-CE805BEEDCFF@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41049BE8-E9C0-426B-99A5-6948085E2DE8@gmail.com>
If you are the author of one of the contributed packages,
and if you are planning to follow my call and write
a documentation file fo Worg, please write a quick note to
Philip Rooke <phil@yax.org.uk>
so that he will not waste time extracting docs from your
package.
Thanks!
- Carsten
On Feb 10, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have started a new directory in Worg which will contain
> documentation for the contributed packages that are living
> in Org's contrib/ directory. These packages are currently
> not documented in the Org-mode manual, and the documentation
> in the Lisp files themselves is relative hard to access for
> people looking for interesting ideas and solutions that might
> be found among these packages.
>
> It seems to me that the best way to improve this would be to
> put documentation for these packages on the web.
>
> Worg now contains a directory org-contrib with an index page
> listing the available pages, with a brief description of what
> the package is about. Right now, there is only one item,
> the documentation Tom Breton wrote for org-choose.el.
>
> So this is a call for authors of contributed packages to
> document their package here.
>
> To start up this process, I am looking for a volunteer, with
> the following task:
>
> Go through the file commentaries of stuff in Org's contrib
> directory and extract information from the file commentaries to
> create a page for each of these packages. Making a start in
> this way would be great, and package authors and users could
> then improve on this with time. Anyone???
>
> Once this is done, I will replace the "Extensions" section in
> the manual with a link to the Worg pages, which will then be
> a much better way to browse and find packages.
>
> Thanks
>
> - Carsten
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-10 7:55 Call for documentation of contributed packages Carsten Dominik
2009-02-10 14:22 ` Philip Rooke
2009-02-12 6:27 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-02-12 15:29 ` Manish
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