From: Dave H. <da...@kd...> - 2003-05-30 23:40:54
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On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 15:53, Paul wrote: > Dave, > > I'm glad you're back! I'll hold off doing anything else on the website > for a while. I hope my direct html edits don't cause too much trouble > if you reimport the html to adobe golive. Paul... I never left ;) But, my shack tells a different story. Cobwebs and dust are by-products of time and neglect. Having children will do that ;) I used GoLive to set the general layout and color scheme. Once that was done, the rest was all hand edited. Today I looked at some of the pages and I don't see a problem cleaning it up and getting a better flow to them. Permissions will be a problem. Some pages aren't even group writable. > > One of the simple requests that I was intended to do was adding the > documentation to the left-side nav. The documentation is at: > http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/doc/. It's all generated from lyx source > and it doesn't really fit the style of the website well... I was at one > time considering some sort of perl script to post-process those files > and add the left-side nav and sdcc website color theme. But even just > adding links to it on the main 3 pages would be nice, and the user can > always hit the back button to return to the "normal" part of the website. > A simple style sheet would fix most of that, something I should do with the main site also. I would think the documentation would be far easier to maintain in html than in Lyx format. So, don't abandon your perl script. The documentation may be easier if it's broken up into chapters and maintained in pieces. Text with the most benign of html tags. Your script could apply formating, create an index, and assemble the chapters. Just a thought. --Dave |