Documentation (Was Re: [Maxima] CVS anonymous access)



Hi,

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 21:54, C Y wrote:
> --- "Jaime E. Villate" <villate@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Also, is there any interest that I help improve the Maxima Manual
> > and/or Maxima Book? 
[...]
> Matrix and vector chapter would be a good place to start - in the
> process you could also debug the vector package a little :-).  You need
> emaxima with its latex abilities working in order to work on the Book. 
> Also, if you like you could pick a package and begin writing the
> MaximaBook section on that if it's easier to start with something a
> little less general.
> 
> Progress on MaximaBook has been essentially nonexistant for a while -
> I've been too busy to do much with it, and likely will be for quite a
> while - perhaps even until next summer :-(.  You never know, of course,
> but it doesn't look promising.  The cvs directory contains the current
> maximabook structure and source - let me know if you can't get it to
> work and I'll make a tarball of the latest incarnation.  
> 
> CY
> 

I could help with a Texmacs version of the documentation (manual or
maxima book) in that way the documentation becomes interactive and the
reader can test/change/experiment with the capabilities of maxima in the
same moment that he's reading the TeXmacs interactive maxima
documentation.

What do you think about this?

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