documentation categories, was: conventions for .texi files
Subject: documentation categories, was: conventions for .texi files
From: Vadim V. Zhytnikov
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:27:57 +0300
Camm Maguire writes:
>Greetings!
>
>"Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@mail.ru> writes:
>
>
>>>Well, unless GCL supports packages or whatever features in the
>>>manner we want, I'm inclined to make GCL Maxima use the same
>>>describe code. Comments in the source code (src/macdes.lisp) say
>>>that built-in GCL describe is used because it's faster, so
>>>there isn't a pressing reason to preserve it.
>>>
>>>
>
>Would be happy to entertain modifications/enhancements to GCL's
>describe to suit maxima's needs and preserve performance if someone
>could clearly 'describe' them to me.
>
>
Thank you for kind offer. This is certainly a possibility
but at present we don't know precisely what do we need.
BTW, besides speed GCL's describe has yet another nice
feature - it transparently works with compressed info
files.
--
Vadim V. Zhytnikov
<vvzhy@mail.ru>
<vvzhy@netorn.ru>