From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Call for documentation of contributed packages Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:27:02 +0100 Message-ID: <8C45E424-0599-4387-8C59-CE805BEEDCFF@uva.nl> References: <41049BE8-E9C0-426B-99A5-6948085E2DE8@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXV2T-0002HI-Gl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:27:09 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXV2R-0002Er-3T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:27:08 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54999 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXV2Q-0002Ee-Px for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:27:06 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f20.google.com ([209.85.219.20]:41555) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXV2Q-00017k-Cb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:27:06 -0500 Received: by ewy13 with SMTP id 13so871827ewy.18 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:27:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <41049BE8-E9C0-426B-99A5-6948085E2DE8@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist 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 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 > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode