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Re: Automated Doc Extraction: A Premature Retrospective


Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:

> So Greg and I got the automated doc extraction system working and have
> documented all of the approximately 200 C-level primitives in Scwm, as
> well as adding documentation for hooks and special variables, and
> higher-level concept documentation. The HTML (generated from DocBook)
> that we have so far can be seen at:
> 
> http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/cassowary/scwm-doc/

I just updated this after adding an interface to ispell in my extractor
(thanks Sam Steingold for the suggestion).  Cross references and
concepts are still not dealt with at all.

I too think this is a big win (scwm had no reliable documentation a week 
ago! :-) ).

Greg J. Badros
gjb@cs.washington.edu
Seattle, WA  USA
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gjb