Hi,
Does someone know how to make documentation for maxima
functions that are not part of the maxima distribution? For
instance, being able to integrate documentation into the the
online system would be nice.
./share/template.texi gives instructions for making
a document and integrating it into the distribution. It's not clear
how to do this without doing configure and make for the entire
distribution. template.texi makes reference to template-standalone.texi,
which is not in the source tree.
It appears that code for online documentation is in
cl-info.lisp and is called via build_index.pl.
./perl build_index.pl maxima.info
looks like it generates lisp code that makes a hash table
giving the range of bytes in .info files for each topic.
I guess that it would go something like this:
1. write your own texi documents.
2. convert it to info files
3 call ./build_info.pl mydoc.info
4 execute the resulting lisp code which will add entries
to the hash tables that are referenced by 'describe'
There are probably other issues like getting your user info
files into some search path. Maybe someone else has already
done this ?
Thanks,
John