Dear colleagues, that is nice idea to compile the manual. Among other i think the best format choice is LaTeX or something like that. The reasons: -- LaTeX format is completely independent of the hardware or software platform; -- LaTeX format is independent of the supplier; -- at the same time LaTeX text might be prepared in WYSIWYG fashion with 'lyx'. With my best wishes, On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > Hi Damir, > > I'm very pleased that a ROOT User Guide is in the works. It sounds > very promesing. > > On a the format: I suggest you use some format that is well-defined > (i.e., _not_ Word), like say: LaTeX2e, SGML, or RTF. I recommend the > LaTeX, ofcourse. Ofcourse, using SGML, it would be trivial to convert > into other formats. Good examples of a coherent format convention is > the LDP (Linux Documentation Project - www.linuxdoc.org) or Debian > GNU/Linux' Documentation project (www.debian.org/~elphick/ddp/). The > first uses LaTeX, the second uses SGML. > > On Unix Man pages: I've already compiled some information from a lot > of the web-pages and docs of ROOT into a set of Unix manpages. They > are part of my Debian GNU/Linux package of ROOT. You can a tarball of > these man pages from > > www.fys.ku.dk/~cholm/pub/root-unixman.tar.gz > > Please notice, that this site is somewhat unstable, so if you don't > get first time around, keep trying. > > Thanks, and keep up the good work, > > Christian ----------------------------------------------------------- > Holm Christensen Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Office: (+45) 353 25 305 > DK-2200 Copenhagen N Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm > Denmark Email: cholm@nbi.dk > ------------------------------------------------------------------------+ NAME: Andrei E. Chevel (Shevel) | EMAIL: Andrei.Chevel@pnpi.spb.ru | Computing Systems Department URL: http://www.pnpi.spb.ru/comp_home.html | TEL : +7(81271)36040 | POST ADDRESS: Petersburg Nuclear Physics Inst.| FAX : +7(81271)46256 | 188350, Gatchina, leningrad district, Russia. | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+
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