From: John H. <jd...@gm...> - 2008-05-23 01:35:35
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Ted Drain <ted...@jp...> wrote: > Darren, > I think this is a GREAT idea. I've been trying to free up some resources to > work on a better MPL user's guide for our users this year. If I can swing > it, perhaps we can help contribute some sections. That would be great. > Given that we use the units system extensively, we'd probably have some > sections that are pure MPL and a lot of sections that use our custom time > and unit types. It might be nice if there were hooks where we could build > our own local docs in with the standard docs. I'm guess that would be > fairly easy... This should be really easy. The top level doc, index.txt will just be a bunch of include files. It would be no problem to write your own top level include document, which mixes our sections and chapters with your own as you see fit. Feel free to use the svn doc tree -- eg you can add a html_pdf or pdf_jpl build command to the make.py file that builds your own docs which include our stuff plus your own custom stuff. Or if you want to set up a framework outside of our tree that supports hooks, give it a whirl and let us know what we can do on our end to help. As far as contributions, a units chapter would be most welcome, as would anything else you can contribute. I'd like to have a UI chapter which would include a section for each backend UI, so you might want to consider a "Using matplotlib with qt" section since you are co-authors of the qt backend. BTW, I understand that you guys (and mpl by extension) have a big day coming up Sunday with the Phoenix landing. Good luck! Thanks |