Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch > [mailto:owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch]On Behalf Of Christian Holm > Christensen > Subject: Re: [ROOT] Table output [...] > This sort of brings up another thing: It'd be nice if ROOT had > something parallel to THtml that could write > LaTeX/SGML/DocBook/etc. formatted files I agree. The only problem is that THtml is... well... not really forseen to be output format independent. Content and output format are not decoupled. Obviously this approach is not really nice. Not only does it make context dependent HTML formatting difficult (e.g. if one want to specify how the documentation output of inline functions should look like), but it also blocks the implementation of other output formats. The most natural thing to do is to more or less completely re-write THtml, split it up into a parser which stores the documentation content-wise (say, TClassDoc) and output classes (say TClassDocLaTeX, TClassDocHtml, ...). (Sometimes methods of the output classes need to be called, e.g. to put a link around some text, but all that could be implemented completely format independent). This would also allow the HTML code generated by the documentation to be fully configurable, one could specify the layout for each part of the documentation separately. Suppose I'd volunteer to rewrite THtml - would someone volunteer to implement "TClassDocLaTeX"? I won't be able to finish re-writing THtml before mid next year; if someone else could do this job earlier I'm happy to get rid of it :-) Cheers, Axel. > [Ok, I'm throwing out a lot of suggestions today which I > unfortunately do not have the time to do something about myself - > sorry about that - anyway, it's suggestions to put (far down) on the > TODO list if you feel like it.] > > Yours, > > Christian Holm Christensen ------------------------------------------- > Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 28 82 16 23 > Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305 > Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm >
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