Subject: plan to bring share documents into help system
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:49:40 -0700
Hello,
I'd like to see documentation for share packages available
by the same means as the documentation for the rest of
Maxima. A straightforward way to do that is to put any .info
files in share on the list of files to search for "describe".
The variables of interest are CL-INFO::*DEFAULT-INFO-FILES*
and CL-INFO::*INFO-PATHS*.
There are a couple of practical problems to work out --
one is to generate the .info files and copy them
if necessary to a directory where they can be found,
and the other is to create texinfo versions of whatever
.txt or .usg files now exist in share/.
However these problems aren't difficult,
and once the makefile/directory stuff is worked out,
it will be possible to make progress a little at a time.
For what it's worth,
Robert Dodier