Re: JED documentation

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Is tmexpand a successor to textmac.sl?  I have found textmac.sl in an
>old JED version, it seems to be a set of macros for writing linuxdoc
>SGML.  This is interesting, because linuxdoc can be converted to info
>(though it doesn't work here).

Yes.  Right now my tmexpand jed-script requires some features that are
only in jed-0.99-17.  Of course, once 0.9917 is released, I can make
tmexpand available.

>I think JED should have two forms of documentation: short function
>descriptions in the lib/jed/slangfuns.txt files, readable online in
>hyperhelp, and extensive documentation in info format, also readable
>online with info.  Like Emacs.  Both forms of documentation will have
>to be written in parallel with the modes they describe, so there should
>be an understanding of what format the documentation should be in.
>Should we use tm?

Of course my preference is for tm, although others may prefer
something else.  The advantage of tm is that it may be used to produce
that "something else" as its target language.

--John

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