State of the Manual



Just a thought:
while you write the documentation, it
may occur to you that what you are documenting
is really so difficult to explain that
(a) you'd like to leave it out.  (appropriate if
it is useless and done by other commands better)
(b) you'd like it to do something else (in which
case it should be put on some "to do" list.)


Also, what is happening to the multiple manual
idea  (user/reference/installation)?
Is all of the "describe" material in some otherwise
printable form?
RJF



Jay Belanger wrote:

> C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>--- Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Just so you guys know, work is still ongoing on the user manual. 
>>>>Volunteers still welcome.  (Hint, hint. :-)
>>>>
>>>Great!
>>>Is there anything specific you want volunteers to do, or should they
>>>look at the current state and add what they think is missing?   (The
>>>latter way could lead to some duplication of effort, I suppose...)
>>>
>>Well, things I would suggest include writing up a section on the Matrix
>>stuff, and any of the more advanced topics discussed in the Maxima
>>Reference Manual - I'm not qualified to discuss things like Number
>>Theory, Groups, etc.
>>
> 
> I'd be happy to take a shot at the ODE section (if nobody is working
> on it...).  So if someone is working on it, let me know...
> 
> Thanks,
> Jay
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