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Manual Poll results

Date1997-02-14 15:07
FromJean Piche
SubjectManual Poll results
Polls are closed. There is enough here to get a good picture:

html	text	ps	rtf	pdf	sgml	latex	nroff

99	86	39	48	22	14	18	3

62 people voted. points were given as follows 1st choice=3pts, 2nd
choice=2pts and 3rd choice=1pt.

So what we will probably end up doing is formatting and maintaining the
manual in SGML format (!). What we will offer on the site however are
manuals in html and text formats. Should there be a desire, we would
also put our sgml sources as well, this way anyone can get the format
they want. The catch, as I am starting to discover, is that SGML editors
are few and expensive.  On the other hand, PD converters seem common, at
least for Unix.

Ok. So we are starting to work on this. This will take a bit of time as
I'm sure you understand. We want to take the time now to formulate good
templates and scripts so it does not take up too much in the long run. I
believe the only documentation we are missing are the Whittle opcodes.
Even if they are not in the current 3.45 distribution, we will roll them
in.

Whenever this is ready for a test drive, we will post an html version on
our www server for people to verify, make suggestions and add any
information we may have missed. 

More later.

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Jean Piche
Universite de Montreal
http://mistral.ere.umontreal.ca/~pichej
http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/Org/CompoElectro/CEC/